English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 101

So Jack employed men to cut through this bridge on both sides, nearly to the middle; and then, dressing himself in his invisible coat, he marched against the giant with his sword of sharpness.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: employ, cut, dress, march · To what, where: men, bridge, Jack, invisible coat

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.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7439:1011): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 employed	advmod
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 employed	nsubj
3	employed	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 employed	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 cut	mark
6	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 men	acl
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 bridge	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 bridge	det
9	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 sides	case
11	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	12 sides	det
12	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cut	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 middle	punct
14	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	17 middle	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 middle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 middle	det
17	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 marched	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 marched	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 marched	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dressing	punct
22	dressing	dress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 marched	advcl
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 dressing	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 coat	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 coat	nmod:poss
26	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 coat	amod
27	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dressing	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 marched	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 marched	nsubj
30	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 employed	conj
31	against	against	ADP	_	33 giant	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 giant	det
33	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 marched	obl
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 sword	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 sword	nmod:poss
36	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 marched	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 sharpness	case
38	sharpness	sharpness	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sword	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 employed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	employ	past	Jack	men				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	cut	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	men not said here	this bridge		on both sides; to the middle	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through bridge=Initial_Location to middle=Destination
3	dress	gerund	Jack not said here	Jack	Jack's invisible coat			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
4	march	past	Jack			then	against the giant; with Jack's sword of sharpness	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against giant=Trajectory

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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