The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 52
Then Jack, setting his foot upon his neck, plunged his sword into the giant’s body, when the monster gave a groan and expired.
Who acts: Jack, monster · What happens: set, plunge, give · To what, where: foot, neck, sword, body, groan
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, monster), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Jack | advmod |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 plunged | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 setting | punct |
| 4 | setting | set | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Jack | acl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 foot | nmod:poss |
| 6 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 setting | obj |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 neck | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 neck | nmod:poss |
| 9 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 setting | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jack | punct |
| 11 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sword | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plunged | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 body | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 giant | det |
| 16 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 body | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 giant | case |
| 18 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plunged | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 gave | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 monster | det |
| 22 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 plunged | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 groan | det |
| 25 | groan | groan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 gave | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 expired | cc |
| 27 | expired | expired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 groan | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 plunged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | gerund | Jack not said here | Jack's foot | Jack's neck | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme upon neck=Destination | |||
| 2 | plunge | past | Jack | Jack's sword | the giant's body | tree rules | |||
| 3 | give | past | the monster | a groan | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent groan=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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