The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 32

Then, getting out of bed, he groped about the room, and at last found a large thick billet of wood.

Who acts: club · What happens: get out, grope, find · To what, where: bed, large thick billet, last

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 (club), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 groped	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 groped	advcl
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 bed	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 bed	case
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 getting	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 getting	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 groped	nsubj
9	groped	grope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 room	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 room	det
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 groped	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 found	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 found	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 found	obl
17	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 groped	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 billet	det
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 billet	amod
20	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 billet	amod
21	billet	billet	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 wood	case
23	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 billet	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 groped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get out	gerund	club not said here	bed				tree rules
2	grope	past	club			then	about the room	vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent about room=Location
3	find	past	club not said here	a large thick billet of wood	last			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent billet=Theme at last=Asset

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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