English Fairy Tales, XIX. Jack the Giant-killer., sentence 22
It occurs also in the curious play of Peele's _The Old Wives' Tale_, in which one of the characters is the Ghost of Jack.
Who acts: hero, one, Peele · What happens: occur, be, play · To what, where: curious play, Ghost
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 (hero, one, Peele), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 occurs | nsubj |
| 2 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 occurs | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 play | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 play | det |
| 6 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 play | amod |
| 7 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 occurs | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Peele | case |
| 9 | Peele | Peele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 play | nmod |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Peele | case |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Peele | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Wives | det |
| 13 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Wives | amod |
| 14 | Wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Tale | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 14 Wives | case |
| 16 | Tale | Tale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Peele | appos |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 occurs | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 20 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Ghost | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 characters | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 characters | det |
| 24 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 Ghost | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Ghost | det |
| 27 | Ghost | Ghost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 occurs | parataxis |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Jack | case |
| 29 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Ghost | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 occurs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | present | hero | the curious play of Peele | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in play=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | which one of the characters | the Ghost | of Jack | tree rules | |||
| 3 | play | Peele | nom play «communication intransitive»: of=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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