The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 65
“Whoever can this trumpet blow Shall cause the giant’s overthrow.”
Who acts: Whoever, Shall, giant · What happens: blow, cause, overthrow · To what, where: overthrow · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Whoever, Shall, giant), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 blow | punct |
| 2 | Whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 blow | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 blow | aux |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 trumpet | det |
| 5 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blow | nsubj |
| 6 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | Shall | Shall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cause | nsubj |
| 8 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 blow | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 giant | det |
| 10 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 overthrow | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 giant | case |
| 12 | overthrow | overthrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cause | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 blow | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 blow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow in a quote | can | Whoever | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cause in a quote | present | Shall | the giant's overthrow | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition overthrow=Patient | ||||
| 3 | overthrow in a quote | the giant | nom overthrow «act transitive»: 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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