The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 41

Jack wanted to make the giant believe that he could eat as much as himself, so he contrived to button a leathern bag inside his coat, and slip the hasty-pudding into this bag, while he seemed to put it into his mouth.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: want, make, believe, eat, contrive, slip · To what, where: much, button, coat, hasty pudding, bag, pudding · 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 (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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 make	xcomp
7	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 giant	parataxis
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 eat	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 eat	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 eat	aux
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 believe	ccomp
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eat	obj
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 much	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 contrived	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 contrived	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 contrived	nsubj
19	contrived	contrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 button	mark
21	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 contrived	obj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bag	det
23	leathern	leathern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bag	amod
24	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 contrived	obj
25	inside	inside	ADP	_	27 coat	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 coat	nmod:poss
27	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 contrived	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 slip	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 slip	cc
30	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 pudding	det
32	hasty	hasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 pudding	amod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 hasty	punct
34	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 slip	obj
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 bag	case
36	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 bag	det
37	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 slip	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 seemed	punct
39	while	while	SCONJ	_	41 seemed	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 seemed	nsubj
41	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	parataxis
42	to	to	PART	_	43 put	mark
43	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 seemed	xcomp
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 put	obj
45	into	into	ADP	_	47 mouth	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 mouth	nmod:poss
47	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 put	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	Jack				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	Jack not said here			giant property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	believe	present					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	eat	could	Jack	much		as Jack	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
5	contrive	past	Jack	button	Jack's coat		tree rules
6	slip	present	Jack not said here	the hasty pudding	this bag		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent pudding=Patient
7	seem	past	Jack				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
8	put	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	pudding	Jack's mouth		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

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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