English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 70
The prince went to bed in great sorrow, but Jack's cap of knowledge informed him how it was to be obtained.
Who acts: prince, cap · What happens: go, inform, obtain · To what, where: great sorrow, prince, knowledge · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, cap), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 bed | case |
| 5 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sorrow | case |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sorrow | amod |
| 8 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 informed | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 informed | cc |
| 11 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 cap | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Jack | case |
| 13 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 informed | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 knowledge | case |
| 15 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cap | nmod |
| 16 | informed | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 informed | iobj |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 obtained | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 obtained | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 obtained | aux:pass |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 obtained | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 obtained | aux:pass |
| 23 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 informed | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the prince | great sorrow | to bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | inform speech: other | past | Jack's cap of knowledge | prince | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | obtain | past · passive | knowledge | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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