The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 2

In those days there lived on St. Michael’s Mount, off Cornwall, a huge giant, eighteen feet high and nine feet round; his fierce and savage looks were the terror of all who beheld him.

Who acts: days, fierce looks, terror · What happens: live, be, behold · To what, where: Mount, terror, Cornwall

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 (days, fierce looks, terror), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 days	det
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lived	nsubj
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 days	advmod
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 Mount	case
7	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Michael	nmod:desc
8	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Mount	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 Michael	case
10	Mount	Mount	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Cornwall	punct
12	off	off	ADP	_	13 Cornwall	case
13	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 giant	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 giant	det
16	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 giant	amod
17	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Cornwall	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 high	punct
19	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 feet	nummod
20	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 high	obl:unmarked
21	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lived	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 round	cc
23	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 feet	nummod
24	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 round	obl:unmarked
25	round	round	ADV	_	21 high	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 terror	punct
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 looks	nmod:poss
28	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 looks	amod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 savage	cc
30	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fierce	conj
31	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 terror	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 terror	cop
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 terror	det
34	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	parataxis
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 all	case
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 terror	nmod
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 beheld	nsubj
38	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 terror	acl:relcl
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 beheld	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	that days		Michael St.'s Mount	off Cornwall	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mount=Location
2	is a	past	Cornwall's fierce looks	the terror		of all	tree rules
3	behold	past	the terror	Cornwall			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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