The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 68
Jack, with his sword of sharpness, soon killed the giant, and the magician was then carried away by a whirlwind; and every knight and beautiful lady who had been changed into birds and beasts returned to their proper shapes.
Who acts: Jack, whirlwind, knight · What happens: kill, carry away, change, return · To what, where: giant, magician, beautiful lady
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, whirlwind, knight), 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 | 10 killed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sword | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 sword | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sword | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jack | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sharpness | case |
| 7 | sharpness | sharpness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sword | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jack | punct |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 killed | advmod |
| 10 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 giant | det |
| 12 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 killed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 carried | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 carried | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 magician | det |
| 16 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 carried | aux:pass |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 carried | advmod |
| 19 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 killed | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 carried | advmod |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 whirlwind | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 whirlwind | det |
| 23 | whirlwind | whirlwind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carried | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 returned | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 returned | cc |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 knight | det |
| 27 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 returned | nsubj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 lady | cc |
| 29 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 lady | amod |
| 30 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 knight | conj |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 changed | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 changed | aux |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 changed | aux:pass |
| 34 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 lady | acl:relcl |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 birds | case |
| 36 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 changed | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 beasts | cc |
| 38 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 birds | conj |
| 39 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 killed | conj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 shapes | case |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 shapes | nmod:poss |
| 42 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 shapes | amod |
| 43 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 returned | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | Jack | the giant | soon property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry away | past · passive | a whirlwind | the magician | then | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||
| 3 | change | past · perfect · passive | beautiful lady | into birds and beasts result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into bird=Result | ||||
| 4 | return | past | every knight and beautiful lady | to knights's proper shapes result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to shape=Result |
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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