The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 18

He made a strict search through all the rooms, and in one of them found three ladies tied up by the hair of their heads, and almost starved to death.

Who acts: Jack, one · What happens: make, find, tie up, starve · To what, where: strict search, rooms, three ladies

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, one), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 search	det
4	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 search	amod
5	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
6	through	through	ADP	_	9 rooms	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 rooms	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rooms	det
9	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 found	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 one	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 found	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 one	nmod
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 ladies	nummod
18	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 found	obj
19	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 ladies	acl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 tied	compound:prt
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 hair	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hair	det
23	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tied	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 heads	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 heads	nmod:poss
26	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hair	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 starved	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 starved	cc
29	almost	almost	ADV	_	30 starved	advmod
30	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 found	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 death	case
32	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 starved	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	Jack	a strict search	all rooms		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent search=Product
2	find	past	one of giants	three ladies			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Topic
3	tie up	participle		three ladies not said here		by the hair of giants's heads	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	starve	participle	one of giants not said here			to death; almost property	tree rules

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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