English Fairy Tales, XIX. Jack the Giant-killer., sentence 14

The Thankful Dead episode, where the hero is assisted by the soul of a person whom he has caused to be buried, is found as early as the _Cento novelle antiche_ and Straparola, xi.

Who acts: soul, person · What happens: assist, cause, bury, find · To what, where: hero, person, Thankful Dead episode

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIX. 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 (soul, person), 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	4 episode	det
2	Thankful	thankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 episode	amod
3	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 episode	amod
4	episode	episode	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 found	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 assisted	punct
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 assisted	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hero	det
8	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 assisted	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 assisted	aux:pass
10	assisted	assist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 episode	acl:relcl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 soul	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 soul	det
13	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 assisted	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 person	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 person	det
16	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 soul	nmod
17	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 caused	obj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 caused	nsubj
19	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 caused	aux
20	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 person	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	23 buried	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 buried	aux:pass
23	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 caused	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 episode	punct
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 found	aux:pass
26	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 early	advmod
28	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 found	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 antiche	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 antiche	det
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	34 antiche	punct
32	Cento	Cento	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 antiche	compound
33	novelle	novelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 antiche	compound
34	antiche	antiche	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 found	ccomp
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	34 antiche	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 Straparola	cc
37	Straparola	Straparola	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 antiche	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 xi	punct
39	xi	xi	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Straparola	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	assist	present · passive	the soul of a person	the hero		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary
2	cause	present · perfect	person	a person		tree rules
3	bury	to-infinitive · passive	a person not said here			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»
4	find	present · passive		the Thankful Dead episode	early property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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