The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 11

Another giant, called Blunderbore, vowed to be revenged on Jack if ever he should have him in his power.

Who acts: giant, Jack · What happens: call, vow, revenge, have · To what, where: Jack, Blunderbore, power · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of 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 (giant, 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	Another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 vowed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 giant	conj
5	Blunderbore	Blunderbore	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 vowed	punct
7	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	10 revenged	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 revenged	aux:pass
10	revenged	revenge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 vowed	xcomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 Jack	case
12	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 revenged	obl
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 have	mark
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 have	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 have	aux
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 revenged	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 have	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 power	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 power	nmod:poss
21	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 vowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	call	participle	another giant not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	vow	past	another giant				tree rules
3	revenge not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	another giant not said here		Jack		tree rules
4	have a condition, not said to happen	should	Jack	Blunderbore	Jack's power	ever	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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