The Red Fairy Book, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs., sentence 2

Jack watched him through the keyhole, and was amazed to see him pick a wolf’s bone, and put half a fowl at a time into his capacious mouth.

Who acts: Jack, Giant · What happens: watch, be, see, pick, put · To what, where: Giant, keyhole, bone, fowl, capacious mouth

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs.. 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), 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	2 watched	nsubj
2	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 watched	obj
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 keyhole	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 keyhole	det
6	keyhole	keyhole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 watched	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 amazed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 amazed	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 amazed	cop
10	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 watched	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 amazed	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 see	obj
14	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 see	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wolf	det
16	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bone	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 wolf	case
18	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pick	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 put	cc
21	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 watched	conj
22	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	24 fowl	det:predet
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 fowl	det
24	fowl	fowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 time	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
28	into	into	ADP	_	31 mouth	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 mouth	nmod:poss
30	capacious	capacious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 mouth	amod
31	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 watched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	Jack	Giant	the keyhole			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	is	past	Jack not said here				amazed property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	Giant				tree rules
4	pick	infinitive	Giant not said here	a wolf's bone				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
5	put	infinitive	Jack not said here	half fowl	Giant's capacious mouth	time		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fowl=Goal

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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