The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 56

Jack alighted from his horse, and, putting on his invisible coat, approached and aimed a blow at the giant’s head, but, missing his aim, he only cut off his nose.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: alight, put, approach, aim, miss, cut off · To what, where: invisible coat, blow, head, aim, nose

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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 alighted	nsubj
2	alighted	alight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 horse	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 horse	nmod:poss
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 alighted	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 putting	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 putting	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 putting	punct
9	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 alighted	advcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 coat	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 coat	nmod:poss
12	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 coat	amod
13	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 putting	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 approached	punct
15	approached	approach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 coat	acl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 aimed	cc
17	aimed	aim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 approached	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 blow	det
19	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 aimed	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	24 head	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 giant	det
22	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 head	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 giant	case
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blow	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 cut	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 cut	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 missing	punct
28	missing	miss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 cut	advcl
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 aim	nmod:poss
30	aim	aim	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 missing	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 missing	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 cut	nsubj
33	only	only	ADV	_	34 cut	advmod
34	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 alighted	conj
35	off	off	ADP	_	34 cut	compound:prt
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 nose	nmod:poss
37	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cut	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 alighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	alight	participle	Jack			from Jack's horse	tree rules
2	put	gerund	Jack not said here		Jack's invisible coat		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on coat=Destination
3	approach	participle		Jack's invisible coat not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	aim	participle		a blow	the giant's head		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot blow=Theme
5	miss	gerund	Jack not said here	Jack's aim			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer aim=Stimulus
6	cut off	past	Jack	Jack's nose			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector nose=Eventuality
7	aim		Jack				nom aim «cognition 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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