The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 27
Soon after this he heard the giant walking backward and forward in the next room, and saying to himself:
Who acts: Jack · What happens: hear, walk, say · To what, where: giant, next room, Jack · 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 (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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Soon | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 giant | det |
| 7 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 giant | advcl |
| 9 | backward | backward | ADV | _ | 8 walking | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 forward | cc |
| 11 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 9 backward | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 room | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 room | det |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 room | amod |
| 15 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walking | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saying | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saying | cc |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 heard | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 himself | case |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 saying | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Jack | the giant | soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer giant=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | walk | gerund | Jack not said here | the next room | backward property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | Jack not said here | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
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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