The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 40

The giant wondered more and more at this; yet he did not answer a word, but went to bring two great bowls of hasty-pudding for their breakfast.

Who acts: giant, Jack · What happens: wonder, not answer, go, bring · To what, where: word, two great bowls

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	3 wondered	nsubj
3	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 wondered	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 more	cc
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 more	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 this	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 more	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 answer	punct
10	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	14 answer	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 answer	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 answer	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 answer	advmod
14	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wondered	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 word	det
16	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 answer	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wondered	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 bring	mark
21	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 went	xcomp
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 bowls	nummod
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bowls	amod
24	bowls	bowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bring	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 pudding	case
26	hasty	hasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 pudding	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 hasty	punct
28	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bowls	nmod
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 breakfast	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 breakfast	nmod:poss
31	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pudding	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wondered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past	the giant		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not answer speech: assert	past · do-support	Jack	a word	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality
3	go	past	the giant not said here		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bring	to-infinitive	the giant not said here	two great bowls of hasty pudding for giants's breakfast	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme

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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