The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 19

They told him that their husbands had been killed by the giants, who had then condemned them to be starved to death because they would not eat the flesh of their own dead husbands.

Who acts: giants · What happens: tell, kill, have, condemn, starve, not eat · To what, where: Jack, husbands, giants, flesh · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 killed	mark
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 husbands	nmod:poss
6	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 killed	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 killed	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 killed	aux:pass
9	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 condemned	advcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 giants	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 giants	det
12	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 killed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 giants	acl:relcl
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 condemned	advmod
17	condemned	condemn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 condemned	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	21 starved	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 starved	aux:pass
21	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 condemned	ccomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 death	case
23	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 starved	obl
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 eat	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 eat	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 eat	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 eat	advmod
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 starved	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 flesh	det
30	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eat	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 husbands	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 husbands	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 husbands	amod
34	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 husbands	amod
35	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 flesh	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	giants = giant		Jack			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	kill	past · perfect · passive	the giants	giants's husbands				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	have	past	the giants					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	condemn	past		giants = giant		then		tree rules
5	starve	to-infinitive · passive					to death	tree rules
6	not eat	would	giants = giant	the flesh of giants's own dead husbands				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient

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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