English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 72
But Jack put on his coat of darkness and his shoes of swiftness, and was there as soon as she was.
Who acts: Jack, cap · What happens: put, be · To what, where: coat
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 (Jack, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 put | cc |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 coat | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 coat | nmod:poss |
| 6 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 darkness | case |
| 8 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coat | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shoes | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 darkness | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 swiftness | case |
| 13 | swiftness | swiftness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shoes | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 there | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 there | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 there | cop |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | parataxis |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 soon | advmod |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 there | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 was | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 was | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 soon | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Jack | Jack's coat of darkness and Jack's shoes of swiftness | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on coat=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | past | soon, there property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | past | cap | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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