The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 8
He then blew his horn so loudly that the giant awoke and came out of his den crying out: “You saucy villain! you shall pay for this I’ll broil you for my breakfast!”
Who acts: Jack, giant, den, You, saucy villain, I · What happens: blow, awake, come out, cry out, villain, pay · To what, where: horn, den, you · 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 (Jack, giant, den, You), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 blew | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 blew | advmod |
| 3 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horn | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blew | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 loudly | advmod |
| 7 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 3 blew | advmod |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 awoke | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 giant | det |
| 10 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 awoke | nsubj |
| 11 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blew | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 awoke | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 den | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 den | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 den | nmod:poss |
| 17 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 18 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 den | acl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 crying | compound:prt |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 pay | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 villain | punct |
| 22 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 villain | nsubj |
| 23 | saucy | saucy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 villain | amod |
| 24 | villain | villain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pay | nsubj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 villain | punct |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 pay | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 pay | aux |
| 28 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 blew | parataxis |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 this | case |
| 30 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 pay | obl |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 broil | nsubj |
| 32 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 broil | aux |
| 33 | broil | broil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 pay | conj |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 broil | obj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 breakfast | case |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 37 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 broil | obl |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 pay | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | Jack | Jack's horn | then | loudly property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | awake | past | the giant | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come out | past | the giant not said here | Jack's den | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient den=Result | ||||
| 4 | cry out speech: express | gerund | Jack's den not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | villain in a quote | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | pay in a quote | shall | saucy villain | for this | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for this=Theme | ||||
| 7 | broil in a quote | future | I | you | for my breakfast | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent you=Patient for breakfast=Beneficiary |
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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