The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 51

When he came up to the giant he made several strokes at him, but could not reach his body, but wounded his thighs in several places; and at length, putting both hands to his sword and aiming with all his might, he cut off both his legs.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: come up, make, not reach, wound, put, aim · To what, where: several strokes, body, thighs, several places, hands, legs

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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	advcl
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 giant	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 strokes	amod
11	strokes	stroke	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 made	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 strokes	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 reach	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 reach	cc
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 reach	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 reach	advmod
18	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 made	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 body	nmod:poss
20	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reach	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wounded	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 wounded	cc
23	wounded	wound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 thighs	nmod:poss
25	thighs	thigh	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wounded	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 places	case
27	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 places	amod
28	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wounded	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 length	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 length	cc
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 length	case
32	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 putting	punct
34	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 made	advcl
35	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	36 hands	det
36	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 putting	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 sword	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 sword	nmod:poss
39	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 putting	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 aiming	cc
41	aiming	aim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 putting	conj
42	with	with	SCONJ	_	45 might	mark
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 might	det:predet
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 might	nmod:poss
45	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 aiming	advcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 cut	punct
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 cut	nsubj
48	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	parataxis
49	off	off	ADP	_	48 cut	compound:prt
50	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	52 legs	det:predet
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 legs	nmod:poss
52	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 cut	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come up	past	Jack			to the giant	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to giant=Initial_Location
2	make	past	Jack	several strokes		at Scarcely	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stroke=Product
3	not reach	could	Jack not said here	Jack's body			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent body=Theme
4	wound	past	Jack not said here	Jack's thighs	several places		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thigh=Experiencer
5	put	gerund	Jack not said here	both hands		to Jack's sword	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
6	aim	gerund	Jack not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	cut off	past	Jack	Jack's legs			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector leg=Eventuality

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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