The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 9

He had just finished, when, taking one step further, he tumbled headlong into the pit, and Jack struck him a blow on the head with his pickaxe which killed him.

Who acts: Jack, pickaxe · What happens: finish, take, tumble, strike, kill · To what, where: one step, villain, head, Jack

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, pickaxe), 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	4 finished	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 finished	advmod
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 taking	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 taking	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 taking	punct
8	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 finished	advcl
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 step	nummod
10	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taking	obj
11	further	further	ADV	_	8 taking	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tumbled	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tumbled	nsubj
14	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	parataxis
15	headlong	headlong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tumbled	xcomp
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 pit	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pit	det
18	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 headlong	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 struck	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 struck	cc
21	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 struck	nsubj
22	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tumbled	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 struck	obj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 blow	det
25	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 struck	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 head	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 head	det
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 struck	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 pickaxe	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 pickaxe	nmod:poss
31	pickaxe	pickaxe	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 struck	obl
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 killed	nsubj
33	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 pickaxe	acl:relcl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 killed	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	Jack				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	take	gerund	Jack not said here	one step		further property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme
3	tumble	past	Jack			headlong property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	strike	past	Jack	villain	the head	with Jack's pickaxe	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient blow=Result with pickaxe=Instrument
5	kill	past	Jack's pickaxe	Jack			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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