More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 7

Jack seized the knife, and holding it with both his hands drove the blade into the single eye of the giant, who woke with a howl of agony, and starting up, barred the door.

Who acts: Jack, holding, single eye, agony · What happens: seize, hold, drive, wake, start up, bar · To what, where: knife, hold, blade, single eye, door

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, holding, single eye, agony), 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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 seized	nsubj
2	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 knife	det
4	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seized	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drove	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 drove	cc
7	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 drove	csubj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 holding	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 hands	case
10	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	12 hands	det
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hands	nmod:poss
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 holding	obl
13	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seized	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 blade	det
15	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drove	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	19 eye	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 eye	det
18	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 eye	amod
19	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drove	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 giant	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 giant	det
22	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 eye	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 woke	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 woke	nsubj
25	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 eye	acl:relcl
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 howl	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 howl	det
28	howl	howl	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 woke	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 agony	case
30	agony	agony	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 howl	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 starting	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 starting	cc
33	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 seized	advcl
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 starting	compound:prt
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 barred	punct
36	barred	bar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seized	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 door	det
38	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 barred	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seize	past	Jack	the knife			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
2	hold	gerund		hold		with knife's hands	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	drive	past	holding	the blade	the single eye of the giant		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent blade=Theme into eye=Trajectory
4	wake	past	the single eye of the giant			with a howl of agony	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with howl=Instrument
5	start up	gerund	Jack not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	bar	past	Jack not said here	the door			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer door=Theme
7	howl		agony				nom howl «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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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