The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 62

Jack promised that in the morning, at the risk of his life, he would break the enchantment; and after a sound sleep he rose early, put on his invisible coat, and got ready for the attempt.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: promise, break, rise, put, get, risk · To what, where: risk, enchantment, invisible coat, life

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 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 morning	mark
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 morning	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 morning	det
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promised	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 risk	punct
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 risk	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 risk	det
10	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promised	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 life	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 life	nmod:poss
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 risk	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 break	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 break	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 break	aux
17	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 enchantment	det
19	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 break	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 rose	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 rose	cc
22	after	after	ADP	_	25 sleep	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 sleep	det
24	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sleep	compound
25	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rose	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 rose	nsubj
27	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 promised	conj
28	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 rose	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 put	punct
30	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 rose	advcl
31	on	on	ADP	_	34 coat	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 coat	nmod:poss
33	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 coat	amod
34	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 put	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 got	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 got	cc
37	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 promised	parataxis
38	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 got	xcomp
39	for	for	ADP	_	41 attempt	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 attempt	det
41	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ready	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	Jack		the risk of Jack's life	morning		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	break	would	Jack	the enchantment				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enchantment=Patient
3	rise	past	Jack			after a sound sleep	early property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	put	infinitive	Jack not said here		Jack's invisible coat			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on coat=Destination
5	get	past					ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	risk			Jack's life				nom risk «state transitive»: of=patient

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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