English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 96
Then searching the giant's coffers, he shared the gold and silver equally amongst them and took them to a neighbouring castle, where they all feasted and made merry over their deliverance.
Who acts: giant, coffers · What happens: search, share, take, feast, make, deliver · To what, where: coffers, gold, neighbouring castle, deliverance
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 (giant, coffers), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 searching | advmod |
| 2 | searching | search | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 shared | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 giant | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coffers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 giant | case |
| 6 | coffers | coffer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 searching | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 searching | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shared | nsubj |
| 9 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gold | det |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shared | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 silver | cc |
| 13 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gold | conj |
| 14 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 16 them | advmod |
| 15 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shared | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shared | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 castle | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 castle | det |
| 22 | neighbouring | neighbouring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 castle | amod |
| 23 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 feasted | punct |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 feasted | advmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 feasted | nsubj |
| 27 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 feasted | advmod |
| 28 | feasted | feast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 castle | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 made | cc |
| 30 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 feasted | conj |
| 31 | merry | merry | ADV | _ | 30 made | advmod |
| 32 | over | over | ADP | _ | 34 deliverance | case |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 deliverance | nmod:poss |
| 34 | deliverance | deliverance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 made | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | gerund | giant not said here | the giant's coffers | then | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent coffer=Location | |||
| 2 | share | past | giant | the gold and silver | amongst coffers = coffer | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take | past | giant not said here | coffers = coffer | a neighbouring castle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to castle=Destination | |||
| 4 | feast | past | coffers = coffer | all property | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | make | past | coffers = coffer not said here | coffers's deliverance | merry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 6 | deliver | coffers = coffer | nom deliverance «act transitive»: poss=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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