The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 46

“Ods splutter hur nails!” cried the Welsh giant, who was ashamed to be outdone by such a little fellow as Jack, “hur can do that hurself”; so he snatched up the knife, plunged it into his own stomach, and in a moment dropped down dead.

Who acts: Ods, Welsh giant, little fellow, hur · What happens: splutter, cry, be, outdo, do, snatch up · To what, where: nails, that, knife, own stomach, moment · 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 (Ods, Welsh giant, little fellow, hur), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 splutter	punct
2	Ods	od	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 splutter	nsubj
3	splutter	splutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	parataxis
4	hur	hur	X	Foreign=Yes	5 nails	nmod
5	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 splutter	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 splutter	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 splutter	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 giant	det
10	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 giant	amod
11	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ashamed	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 ashamed	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ashamed	cop
15	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 giant	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	18 outdone	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 outdone	aux:pass
18	outdone	outdo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 ashamed	xcomp
19	by	by	ADP	_	23 fellow	case
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	23 fellow	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fellow	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fellow	amod
23	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 outdone	obl
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 Jack	case
25	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 fellow	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 do	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 do	punct
28	hur	hur	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 do	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 do	aux
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ashamed	parataxis
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 do	obj
32	hurself	hurself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 do	obj
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 do	punct
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 snatched	punct
35	so	so	ADV	_	37 snatched	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 snatched	nsubj
37	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	conj
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 snatched	compound:prt
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 knife	det
40	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 snatched	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 plunged	punct
42	plunged	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	conj
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 plunged	obj
44	into	into	ADP	_	47 stomach	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 stomach	nmod:poss
46	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 stomach	amod
47	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 plunged	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 moment	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 moment	cc
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 moment	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 moment	det
52	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obl
53	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 moment	acl
54	down	down	ADP	_	53 dropped	compound:prt
55	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 dropped	xcomp
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	splutter in a quote	present	Ods	nails hur				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Topic
2	cry speech: express	past	the Welsh giant			moment		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	past	the Welsh giant				ashamed property	tree rules
4	outdo	to-infinitive · passive	such little fellow as Jack					vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
5	do in a quote	can	hur	that				tree rules
6	snatch up	past	hur	the knife				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
7	plunge	past	the Welsh giant not said here	knife	hur's own stomach			vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
8	drop down	participle		a moment not said here			dead property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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