The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 15
Jack, perceiving in one corner of the room a strong cord, took courage, and making a slip-knot at each end, he threw them over their heads, and tied it to the window-bars; he then pulled till he had choked them.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: perceive, take, make, throw, tie, pull · To what, where: strong cord, one corner, courage, slip knot, end, giants
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 (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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 took | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jack | punct |
| 3 | perceiving | perceive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Jack | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 corner | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 corner | nummod |
| 6 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 perceiving | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 corner | nmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cord | det |
| 11 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cord | amod |
| 12 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 perceiving | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jack | punct |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 making | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 making | cc |
| 18 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 took | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 knot | det |
| 20 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 knot | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 slip | punct |
| 22 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 making | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 end | case |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 end | det |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 making | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 threw | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 threw | nsubj |
| 28 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 threw | obj |
| 30 | over | over | ADP | _ | 32 heads | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 heads | nmod:poss |
| 32 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 threw | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 tied | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 tied | cc |
| 35 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 tied | obj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 bars | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 bars | det |
| 39 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 bars | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 window | punct |
| 41 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 tied | obl |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 pulled | punct |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 pulled | nsubj |
| 44 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 45 pulled | advmod |
| 45 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | parataxis |
| 46 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 49 choked | mark |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 choked | nsubj |
| 48 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 choked | aux |
| 49 | choked | choke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 45 pulled | ccomp |
| 50 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 choked | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | gerund | Jack not said here | a strong cord | one corner of the room | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cord=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | take | past | Jack | courage | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | Jack not said here | a slip knot | at each end | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset knot=Product | |||
| 4 | throw | past | Jack | giants = giant | giants's heads | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme over head=Destination | |||
| 5 | tie | past | Jack not said here | knot | to the window bars | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to bar=Co-Patient | |||
| 6 | pull | past | Jack | then | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | choke | past · perfect | Jack | giants = giant | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination |
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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