English Fairy Tales, XIX. Jack the Giant-killer., sentence 23
Practically the same story as this part of Jack the Giant-Killer occurs in Kennedy, _Fictions of the Irish Celts_, p. 32, “Jack the Master and Jack the Servant;” and Kennedy adds (p. 38), “In some versions Jack the Servant is the spirit of the buried man.”
Who acts: same story, Kennedy, Jack · What happens: occur, add, be, bury · To what, where: Jack, Kennedy, p., spirit, versions · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (same story, Kennedy, Jack), 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 | Practically | practically | ADV | _ | 14 occurs | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 occurs | nsubj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 part | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 part | det |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 story | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Jack | case |
| 9 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 part | nmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Killer | det |
| 11 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Killer | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Giant | punct |
| 13 | Killer | Killer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Jack | appos |
| 14 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Kennedy | case |
| 16 | Kennedy | Kennedy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 occurs | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Fictions | punct |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 Fictions | punct |
| 19 | Fictions | fiction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Kennedy | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Celts | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Celts | det |
| 22 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Celts | amod |
| 23 | Celts | Celt | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 Fictions | nmod |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 Kennedy | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 p. | punct |
| 26 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Kennedy | conj |
| 27 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 p. | flat |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Jack | punct |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Jack | punct |
| 30 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 occurs | obl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Master | det |
| 32 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Jack | appos |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Jack | cc |
| 34 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Jack | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Servant | det |
| 36 | Servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Jack | nsubj |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 occurs | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 occurs | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 adds | cc |
| 40 | Kennedy | Kennedy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 adds | nsubj |
| 41 | adds | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 occurs | conj |
| 42 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 43 p. | punct |
| 43 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 adds | obj |
| 44 | 38 | 38 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 43 p. | flat |
| 45 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 43 p. | punct |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 spirit | punct |
| 47 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 56 spirit | punct |
| 48 | In | in | ADP | _ | 50 versions | case |
| 49 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 50 versions | det |
| 50 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 56 spirit | obl |
| 51 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 spirit | nsubj |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 Servant | det |
| 53 | Servant | Servant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Jack | appos |
| 54 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 56 spirit | cop |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 spirit | det |
| 56 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 adds | conj |
| 57 | of | of | ADP | _ | 60 man | case |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 man | det |
| 59 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 60 man | amod |
| 60 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 spirit | nmod |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 occurs | punct |
| 62 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 occurs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | present | the same story as this part of Jack | Jack and Jack | Kennedy and Fictions of the Irish Celts and p. | practically property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in kennedy=Location | ||
| 2 | add speech: assert | present | Kennedy | p. | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent p.=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Jack | the spirit | some versions | of the buried man | tree rules | ||
| 4 | bury in a quote | participle | vn put-9.1-1 «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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