The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 49

Scarcely had he entered the forest when he beheld a monstrous giant dragging along by the hair of their heads a handsome knight and his lady.

Who acts: Scarcely, monstrous giant · What happens: have, enter, behold, drag · To what, where: forest, monstrous giant

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 (Scarcely, monstrous giant), 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	Scarcely	Scarcely	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 entered	nsubj
4	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entered	obj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 beheld	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 beheld	nsubj
9	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 entered	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 giant	det
11	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 giant	amod
12	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beheld	obj
13	dragging	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 giant	acl
14	along	along	ADV	_	13 dragging	advmod
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 hair	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hair	det
17	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dragging	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 heads	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 heads	nmod:poss
20	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hair	nmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 knight	det
22	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 knight	amod
23	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heads	appos
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 lady	cc
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 lady	nmod:poss
26	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 knight	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Scarcely			tree rules
2	enter	past	Scarcely	the forest		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Destination
3	behold	past	Scarcely	a monstrous giant		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giant=Stimulus
4	drag	gerund	a monstrous giant not said here		by the hair of giants's heads; along property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by hair=Location

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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