The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 36

The giant started when he saw him, and began to stammer out: “Oh! dear me; is it you?

Who acts: giant, Jack, room · What happens: start, see, begin, stammer out, be · To what, where: club, you · 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, Jack, room), 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	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 started	nsubj
3	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 saw	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 started	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 started	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 stammer	mark
12	stammer	stammer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 stammer	compound:prt
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 dear	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 dear	punct
16	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	18 dear	discourse
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 Oh	punct
18	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 began	parataxis
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 dear	nsubj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 you	punct
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 you	cop
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 you	nsubj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 started	parataxis
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	start	past	the giant		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	see	past	Jack	club	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	begin	past	the giant not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	stammer out speech: other	to-infinitive	the giant not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present	room	you	tree rules

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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