English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 14

Jack then placed himself on the opposite side of the pit, farthest from the giant's lodging, and, just at the break of day, he put the horn to his mouth, and blew, Tantivy, Tantivy.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: place, put, blow, break · To what, where: Jack, opposite side, horn, Tantivy, day

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, 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), 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	3 placed	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 placed	advmod
3	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 placed	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 side	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 side	det
7	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 side	amod
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 pit	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pit	det
11	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 side	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 farthest	punct
13	farthest	far	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 pit	amod
14	from	from	ADP	_	18 lodging	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 giant	det
16	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lodging	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 giant	case
18	lodging	lodging	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 farthest	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 break	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 break	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 break	punct
22	just	just	ADV	_	25 break	advmod
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 break	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 break	det
25	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 day	case
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 break	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 put	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 put	nsubj
30	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 horn	det
32	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 put	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 mouth	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 mouth	nmod:poss
35	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 put	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 blew	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 blew	cc
38	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Tantivy	punct
40	Tantivy	Tantivy	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 blew	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 Tantivy	punct
42	Tantivy	Tantivy	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Tantivy	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past	Jack	Jack	the opposite side of the pit	then	at the break of day	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on side=Destination
2	put	past	Jack	the horn			to Jack's mouth	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent horn=Goal
3	blow	past	Jack not said here	Tantivy and Tantivy				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent tantivy=Patient
4	break			day				nom break «event transitive»: of=patient

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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