The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 66

As soon as Jack had read this he seized the trumpet and blew a shrill blast, which made the gates fly open and the very castle itself tremble.

Who acts: Jack, shrill blast, gates, castle · What happens: read, seize, blow, make, fly, tremble · To what, where: this, trumpet, shrill blast

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, shrill blast, gates, castle), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 seized	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 read	mark
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 read	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 read	aux
6	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 seized	advcl
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 read	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seized	nsubj
9	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trumpet	det
11	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seized	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 blew	cc
13	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seized	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 blast	det
15	shrill	shrill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 blast	amod
16	blast	blast	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blew	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 made	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 made	nsubj
19	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 blast	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 gates	det
21	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fly	nsubj
22	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 made	ccomp
23	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fly	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 tremble	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 castle	det
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 castle	advmod
27	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tremble	nsubj
28	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	27 castle	nmod:unmarked
29	tremble	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 blew	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	read	past · perfect	Jack	this		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic
2	seize	past	Jack	the trumpet	soon property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trumpet=Theme
3	blow	past	Jack not said here	a shrill blast		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent blast=Patient
4	make	past	a shrill blast			tree rules
5	fly	present	the gates		open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tremble	present	the castle trumpet			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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