The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 34
The giant, about midnight, entered the apartment, and with his bludgeon struck many blows on the bed, in the very place where Jack had laid the log; and then he went back to his own room, thinking he had broken all Jack’s bones.
Who acts: giant midnight, Jack, club · What happens: enter, strike, lay, go back, think, break · To what, where: apartment, many blows, log, bones · 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 (giant midnight, Jack, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 midnight | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 midnight | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 midnight | punct |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 midnight | case |
| 5 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 midnight | punct |
| 7 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 apartment | det |
| 9 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 struck | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 struck | cc |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 bludgeon | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bludgeon | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bludgeon | bludgeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 struck | obl |
| 15 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 entered | conj |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 blows | amod |
| 17 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 struck | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 bed | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bed | det |
| 20 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 struck | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 place | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 place | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 place | det |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 place | advmod |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 struck | obl |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 laid | advmod |
| 27 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 laid | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 laid | aux |
| 29 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 place | acl:relcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 log | det |
| 31 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 laid | obj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 went | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 went | cc |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 went | advmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 went | nsubj |
| 36 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 entered | conj |
| 37 | back | back | ADV | _ | 36 went | advmod |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 room | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 room | nmod:poss |
| 40 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 room | amod |
| 41 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 went | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 thinking | punct |
| 43 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 went | advcl |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 broken | nsubj |
| 45 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 broken | aux |
| 46 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 43 thinking | ccomp |
| 47 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 Jack | det |
| 48 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 bones | nmod:poss |
| 49 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 48 Jack | case |
| 50 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 broken | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the giant midnight | the apartment | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme apartment=Destination | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | the giant midnight not said here | many blows | with club's bludgeon; in the place; on the bed | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent blow=Instrument on bed=Patient | |||
| 3 | lay | past · perfect | Jack | the log | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent log=Result | ||||
| 4 | go back | past | club | then | to club's own room result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to room=Result | |||
| 5 | think speech: other | gerund | club not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | break | past · perfect | club | all Jack's bones | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/54/34/