The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 13

The giant, passing by and seeing Jack, carried him to his castle, where he locked him up in a large room, the floor of which was covered with the bodies, skulls and bones of men and women.

Who acts: giant, Jack · What happens: pass by, see, carry, lock up, cover · To what, where: Jack, castle, Cormoran, large room

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 carried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 passing	punct
4	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 giant	conj
5	by	by	ADP	_	4 passing	fixed
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 seeing	cc
7	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 passing	conj
8	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 seeing	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 carried	punct
10	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 carried	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 castle	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 castle	nmod:poss
14	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carried	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 locked	punct
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 locked	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 locked	nsubj
18	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 carried	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 locked	obj
20	up	up	ADP	_	18 locked	compound:prt
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 room	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 room	det
23	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 room	amod
24	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 locked	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 floor	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 floor	det
27	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 room	appos
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 covered	obl
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 covered	aux:pass
31	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 floor	acl:relcl
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 bodies	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bodies	det
34	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 covered	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 skulls	punct
36	skulls	skull	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 bodies	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 bones	cc
38	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 bodies	conj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 men	case
40	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 bones	nmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 women	cc
42	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 men	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass by	gerund	the giant not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	gerund	the giant not said here	Jack			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jack=Stimulus
3	carry	past	the giant	Jack	Jack's castle		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to castle=Destination
4	lock up	past	Jack	Cormoran	a large room		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	cover	past · passive				of the floor; with the bodies and skulls and bones of men and women	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with body=Theme

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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