English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 95

“Say you so,” quoth Jack, and straightway unlocked the gate and let them free, who all rejoiced like condemned men at sight of a pardon.

Who acts: you, straightway · What happens: say, quoth, unlock, let, rejoice, condemn · To what, where: you, Jack, gate, locks, pardon · 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 (you, straightway), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Say	punct
2	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Say	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	7 quoth	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 quoth	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 quoth	punct
7	quoth	quoth	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Say	advcl
8	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 quoth	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 unlocked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 unlocked	cc
11	straightway	straightway	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 unlocked	nsubj
12	unlocked	unlock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Say	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gate	det
14	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 unlocked	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 let	cc
16	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Say	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 let	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rejoiced	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 rejoiced	nsubj
21	all	all	ADV	_	22 rejoiced	advmod
22	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 free	advcl
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 men	case
24	condemned	condemn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 men	amod
25	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 rejoiced	obl
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 sight	case
27	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 men	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 pardon	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 pardon	det
30	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sight	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here	you		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent you=Topic
2	quoth	present	you not said here	Jack		tree rules
3	unlock	past	straightway	the gate		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Patient
4	let	infinitive	you not said here	locks = lock	free property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	rejoice	participle			like condemned men at sight of a pardon; all property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	condemn	participle				vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
7	sight			a pardon		nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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