English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 102

Although the giant could not see Jack, he smelt his approach, and cried out in these words:

Who acts: giant, Jack · What happens: not see, smelt, cry out, approach · To what, where: Jack, approach, words

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 (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	Although	although	SCONJ	_	6 see	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 smelt	advcl
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 smelt	nsubj
10	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 approach	nmod:poss
12	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 smelt	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cried	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cried	cc
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 smelt	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 cried	compound:prt
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 words	case
18	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 words	det
19	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cried	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 smelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not see	could	the giant	Jack		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jack=Stimulus
2	smelt	past	giant	Jack's approach		tree rules
3	cry out speech: express	past	giant not said here		this words	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in word=Location
4	approach		Jack			nom approach «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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