English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 11
After waiting some time Jack, on going to the window beheld afar off the two giants coming towards the castle.
Who acts: two giants · What happens: wait, go, behold, come · To what, where: window, castle
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 (two giants), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 waiting | mark |
| 2 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waiting | obj |
| 5 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 time | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 going | punct |
| 7 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 8 going | mark |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 waiting | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 window | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 window | det |
| 11 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | obl |
| 12 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 afar | amod |
| 13 | afar | afar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 window | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 giants | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 giants | det |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 giants | nummod |
| 17 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 going | obl |
| 18 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 giants | acl |
| 19 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 21 castle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 castle | det |
| 21 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 coming | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | gerund | the window and beheld afar | off the two giants | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to window=Initial_Location off giant=Destination | ||||
| 3 | behold | participle | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | come | gerund | the two giants not said here | the castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards castle=Initial_Location |
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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