The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 55

So, taking the knight’s directions, he mounted his horse and soon after came in sight of another giant, who was sitting on a block of timber waiting for his brother’s return.

Who acts: Jack, sight, timber, brother · What happens: take, mount, come, sit, wait, return · To what, where: directions, horse, sight, block

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, sight, timber, brother), 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	So	so	ADV	_	10 mounted	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 mounted	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 knight	det
5	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 directions	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 knight	case
7	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 taking	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 taking	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 mounted	nsubj
10	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 horse	nmod:poss
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mounted	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
14	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 came	advmod
15	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 came	mark
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 mounted	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 sight	case
18	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 giant	case
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 giant	det
21	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sight	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sitting	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 sitting	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sitting	aux
25	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 sight	acl
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 block	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 block	det
28	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sitting	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 timber	case
30	timber	timber	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 block	nmod
31	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 timber	acl
32	for	for	ADP	_	36 return	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 brother	nmod:poss
34	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 return	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 brother	case
36	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 waiting	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 mounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	gerund	Jack not said here	the knight's directions			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Theme
2	mount	past	Jack	Jack's horse			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
3	come	past	Jack not said here		sight of another giant	soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location
4	sit	past · progressive	sight of another giant		a block of timber		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on block=Location
5	wait	gerund	timber not said here			for Jack's brother's return	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	return		Jack's brother				nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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