English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 109

“You'll have to catch me first,” quoth Jack, and throwing off his invisible coat, so that the giant might see him, and putting on his shoes of swiftness, he ran from the giant, who followed like a walking castle, so that the very foundations of the earth seemed to shake at every step.

Who acts: You, giant, foundations · What happens: have, catch, quoth, throw off, see, put · To what, where: giant, Jack, invisible coat, shoes · 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 (You, giant, foundations), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 catch	mark
6	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 catch	obj
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 catch	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 quoth	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 quoth	punct
11	quoth	quoth	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	conj
12	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 quoth	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ran	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 ran	cc
15	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 ran	advcl
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 throwing	compound:prt
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 coat	nmod:poss
18	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 coat	amod
19	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 throwing	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 see	punct
21	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 see	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 so	fixed
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 giant	det
24	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 see	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 see	aux
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 throwing	advcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 see	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 putting	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 putting	cc
30	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 throwing	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 shoes	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 shoes	nmod:poss
33	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 putting	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 swiftness	case
35	swiftness	swiftness	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 shoes	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 throwing	punct
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 ran	nsubj
38	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 have	parataxis
39	from	from	ADP	_	41 giant	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 giant	det
41	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 ran	xcomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 followed	punct
43	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 followed	nsubj
44	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 giant	parataxis
45	like	like	ADP	_	48 castle	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 castle	det
47	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 castle	compound
48	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 followed	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 seemed	punct
50	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	58 seemed	mark
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 so	fixed
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 foundations	det
53	very	very	ADV	_	54 foundations	advmod
54	foundations	foundation	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 seemed	nsubj
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 earth	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 earth	det
57	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 foundations	nmod
58	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 ran	conj
59	to	to	PART	_	60 shake	mark
60	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 seemed	xcomp
61	at	at	ADP	_	63 step	case
62	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	63 step	det
63	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 shake	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	future	You				tree rules
2	catch in a quote	to-infinitive	You not said here	the giant = giant		first property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	quoth	present	You not said here	Jack			tree rules
4	throw off	gerund	giant not said here	Jack's invisible coat			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme
5	see	might	the giant	Jack			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
6	put	gerund	giant not said here		giant's shoes of swiftness		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on shoe=Destination
7	run	past	giant			giant property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	follow	past				like a walking castle	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	seem	past	the foundations of the earth				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
10	shake	to-infinitive	the foundations of the earth not said here			at every step	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at step=Stimulus

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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