The Red Fairy Book, ‘master! Master!’, sentence 5

Still the Giant came on so fast that he was quite close to poor Jack, and had stretched out his great hand to catch him.

Who acts: Giant, Jack · What happens: come on, be, stretch out, catch · To what, where: poor Jack, great hand, Jack

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘master! Master!’. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giant, Jack), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Giant	det
3	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 fast	advmod
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 came	advmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 close	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 close	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 close	cop
11	quite	quite	ADV	_	12 close	advmod
12	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 Jack	case
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Jack	amod
15	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 close	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stretched	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stretched	cc
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 stretched	aux
19	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 came	conj
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 stretched	compound:prt
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hand	nmod:poss
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hand	amod
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stretched	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 catch	mark
25	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 stretched	advcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 catch	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come on	past	the Giant			still	fast property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Jack		poor Jack		close property	tree rules
3	stretch out	past · perfect	the Giant not said here	Jack's great hand				vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
4	catch	to-infinitive	the Giant not said here	Jack				vn get-13.5.1 «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 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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