The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 12

This giant kept an enchanted castle in the midst of a lonely wood; and some time after the death of Cormoran Jack was passing through a wood, and being weary, sat down and went to sleep.

Who acts: giant, time, Cormoran · What happens: keep, enchant, pass, be, sit down, go · To what, where: enchanted castle, midst, wood, sleep

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, time, Cormoran), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 castle	det
5	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 castle	amod
6	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 midst	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 midst	det
9	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 wood	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wood	det
12	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wood	amod
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 midst	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 passing	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 passing	cc
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 passing	nsubj
18	after	after	ADP	_	20 death	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 death	det
20	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 time	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Cormoran	case
22	Cormoran	Cormoran	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 death	nmod
23	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Cormoran	flat
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 passing	aux
25	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 kept	advcl
26	through	through	ADP	_	28 wood	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 wood	det
28	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 passing	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 weary	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 weary	cc
31	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 weary	cop
32	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 passing	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sat	punct
34	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	parataxis
35	down	down	ADP	_	34 sat	compound:prt
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 went	cc
37	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 sat	conj
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 sleep	case
39	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 went	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	this giant	a enchanted castle	the midst of a lonely wood		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent castle=Theme in midst=Location
2	enchant	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	pass	past · progressive	some time after the death of Cormoran		a wood		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through wood=Location
4	is	gerund	some time after the death of Cormoran not said here			weary property	tree rules
5	sit down	past					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	go	past			sleep		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location
7	die		Cormoran				nom death «event 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: «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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