English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 107
The giant cried out again: “Art thou that villain who killed my kinsmen?
Who acts: giant, villain · What happens: cry out, kill · To what, where: kinsmen · Speech: someone speaks here
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, villain), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 giant | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 cried | compound:prt |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 cried | advmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Art | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Art | punct |
| 8 | Art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cried | parataxis |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 Art | obj |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 villain | det |
| 11 | villain | villain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Art | obj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 killed | nsubj |
| 13 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 villain | acl:relcl |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 kinsmen | nmod:poss |
| 15 | kinsmen | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 killed | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | the giant | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | past | that villain | my kinsmen | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kinsman=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: «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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