The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 63

When he had climbed to the top of the mountain he saw two fiery griffins, but he passed between them without the least fear of danger, for they could not see him because of his invisible coat.

Who acts: Jack, griffins · What happens: climb, see, pass, not see, fear · To what, where: top, two fiery griffins, Jack, danger

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, griffins), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 climbed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 climbed	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 climbed	aux
4	climbed	climb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 saw	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 top	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 top	det
7	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climbed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 mountain	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mountain	det
10	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 top	nmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 griffins	nummod
14	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 griffins	amod
15	griffins	griffin	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 saw	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 passed	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 passed	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 passed	nsubj
19	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saw	parataxis
20	between	between	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 passed	obl
22	without	without	ADP	_	25 fear	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fear	det
24	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 fear	amod
25	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 passed	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 danger	case
27	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fear	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 see	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 see	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 see	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 see	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 see	advmod
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 passed	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 see	obj
35	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	39 coat	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	35 because	fixed
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 coat	nmod:poss
38	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 coat	amod
39	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 see	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	climb	past · perfect	Jack		the top of the mountain		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination
2	see	past	Jack	two fiery griffins			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer griffin=Stimulus
3	pass	past	Jack			between griffins = griffin; without the least fear of danger	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between they=Location
4	not see	could	griffins = griffin	Jack		because Jack's invisible coat	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	fear			danger			nom fear «feeling 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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