English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 94
And many are the times they have dined upon murdered men!”
What happens: be, dine, murder · To what, where: many times
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dined | cc |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 times | amod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 times | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 times | det |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dined | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dined | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dined | aux |
| 8 | dined | dine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 men | case |
| 10 | murdered | murder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 men | amod |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dined | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 dined | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 dined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the many times | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | dine | present · perfect · passive | the many times | upon murdered men | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | murder | participle | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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