The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 14

Soon after the giant went to fetch his brother who was likewise a giant, to take a meal off his flesh; and Jack saw with terror through the bars of his prison the two giants approaching.

Who acts: giant, brother, Jack, two giants · What happens: go, fetch, be, take, see, approach · To what, where: brother, meal, flesh, bars, prison

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, brother, Jack, two giants), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 went	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 went	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fetch	mark
7	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brother	nmod:poss
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fetch	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 giant	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 giant	cop
12	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	14 giant	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 giant	det
14	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 brother	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
16	to	to	PART	_	17 take	mark
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fetch	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 meal	det
19	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obj
20	off	off	ADP	_	22 flesh	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 flesh	nmod:poss
22	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 saw	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 saw	cc
25	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 saw	nsubj
26	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 terror	case
28	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 saw	obl
29	through	through	ADP	_	31 bars	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bars	det
31	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 saw	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 prison	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 prison	nmod:poss
34	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bars	nmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 giants	det
36	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 giants	nummod
37	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 approaching	nsubj
38	approaching	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 prison	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the giant			soon property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fetch	to-infinitive	the giant not said here	Jack's brother			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme
3	is	past	Jack's brother			giant, likewise property	tree rules
4	take	to-infinitive	the giant not said here	a meal	Jack's flesh		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent meal=Theme off flesh=Initial_Location
5	see	past	Jack		the bars of Jack's prison	with terror	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	approach	gerund	the two giants	Jack's prison not said here			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prison=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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