English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 110

Jack led him a long dance, in order that the gentlemen and ladies might see; and at last to end the matter, ran lightly over the drawbridge, the giant, in full speed, pursuing him with his club.

Who acts: Jack, gentlemen · What happens: lead, see, end, run, pursue · To what, where: giant, order, matter, last, drawbridge

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, gentlemen), 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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 led	nsubj
2	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 led	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dance	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dance	amod
6	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 led	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 order	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 order	case
9	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 led	obl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 see	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gentlemen	det
12	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 see	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ladies	cc
14	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 gentlemen	conj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 see	aux
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 order	acl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 end	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 end	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 last	case
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 end	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 end	mark
22	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 led	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 matter	det
24	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 end	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ran	punct
26	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 led	parataxis
27	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	26 ran	advmod
28	over	over	ADP	_	30 drawbridge	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 drawbridge	det
30	drawbridge	drawbridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ran	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 giant	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 giant	det
33	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 drawbridge	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 speed	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 speed	case
36	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 speed	amod
37	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ran	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 pursuing	punct
39	pursuing	pursue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 ran	advcl
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 pursuing	obj
41	with	with	ADP	_	43 club	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 club	nmod:poss
43	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 pursuing	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	past	Jack	giant	order		tree rules
2	see	might	the gentlemen and ladies	order not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer order=Stimulus
3	end	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	the matter	last		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality matter=Eventuality
4	run	past			the drawbridge	in full speed; lightly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over drawbridge=Trajectory
5	pursue	gerund		giant		with giant's club	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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