The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 4
The giant had done this for many years when Jack resolved to destroy him.
Who acts: giant, Jack · What happens: do, resolve, destroy · To what, where: this, Jack
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), 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 | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 done | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 years | amod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 done | obl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 resolved | advmod |
| 10 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 resolved | nsubj |
| 11 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 destroy | mark |
| 13 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 resolved | xcomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 destroy | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | the giant | this | year | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | resolve | past | Jack | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | destroy | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | Jack | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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.
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