The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 67
The giant and the conjurer now knew that their wicked course was at an end, and they stood biting their thumbs and shaking with fear.
Who acts: conjurer, wicked course, giant · What happens: know, be, stand, bite, shake · To what, where: end, thumbs · 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 (conjurer, wicked course, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 giant | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 knew | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 conjurer | det |
| 5 | conjurer | conjurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | nsubj |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 knew | advmod |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 giant | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 end | mark |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 course | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 course | amod |
| 11 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 end | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 end | cop |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 end | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 end | det |
| 15 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stood | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stood | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stood | nsubj |
| 19 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | biting | bite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 stood | advcl |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 thumbs | nmod:poss |
| 22 | thumbs | thumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 biting | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 shaking | cc |
| 24 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 biting | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 fear | case |
| 26 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shaking | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the conjurer | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | conjurers's wicked course | at a end | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | the giant | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bite | gerund | the giant not said here | conjurers's thumbs | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thumb=Patient | ||||
| 5 | shake | gerund | the giant not said here | with fear | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with fear=Co-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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