The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 57
On this the giant seized his club and laid about him most unmercifully.
What happens: seize, lay · To what, where: club
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: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 giant | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 giant | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 giant | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | obl |
| 5 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 club | nmod:poss |
| 7 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 laid | cc |
| 9 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seized | conj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 laid | obl |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 unmercifully | advmod |
| 13 | unmercifully | unmercifully | ADV | _ | 9 laid | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | Jack's club | on this giant | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay | past | about Jack; unmercifully property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about he=Destination |
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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