English Fairy Tales, XIX. Jack the Giant-killer., sentence 4
_Parallels_.--The chap-book of “Jack the Giant-Killer” is a curious jumble.
Who acts: chap book · What happens: be · To what, where: curious jumble
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 (chap book), 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 Parallels | punct |
| 2 | Parallels | parallel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 jumble | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 20 jumble | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 book | det |
| 6 | chap | chap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 book | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 chap | punct |
| 8 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 jumble | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Jack | case |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Jack | punct |
| 11 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 book | nmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Killer | det |
| 13 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Killer | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Giant | punct |
| 15 | Killer | killer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Jack | appos |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Killer | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 jumble | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 jumble | det |
| 19 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 jumble | amod |
| 20 | jumble | jumble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Parallels | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the chap book of Jack | a curious jumble | tree rules |
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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