English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 112

Jack, standing by the moat, laughed at him all the while; but though the giant foamed to hear him scoff, and plunged from place to place in the moat, yet he could not get out to be revenged.

Who acts: Jack, giant · What happens: stand, laugh, foam, hear, scoff, plunge · To what, where: giant, place

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, giant), 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	8 laughed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Jack	punct
3	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Jack	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 moat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moat	det
6	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 standing	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Jack	punct
8	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 laughed	obl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 while	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 while	det
13	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laughed	obl:unmarked
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 foamed	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 foamed	cc
16	though	though	SCONJ	_	19 foamed	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 giant	det
18	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 foamed	nsubj
19	foamed	foam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 laughed	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 hear	mark
21	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 foamed	xcomp
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hear	obj
23	scoff	scoff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 hear	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 plunged	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 plunged	cc
26	plunged	plunge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 foamed	conj
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 place	case
28	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 plunged	obl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 place	case
30	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 plunged	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 moat	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 moat	det
33	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 place	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 get	punct
35	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	39 get	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 get	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 get	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 get	advmod
39	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 plunged	parataxis
40	out	out	ADV	_	39 get	advmod
41	to	to	PART	_	43 revenged	mark
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 revenged	aux:pass
43	revenged	revenge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 get	advcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund	Jack not said here				by the moat	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by moat=Location
2	laugh	past	Jack			while	at giant	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	foam	past	the giant					tree rules
4	hear	to-infinitive	the giant not said here	giant				tree rules
5	scoff	infinitive	giant not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	plunge	participle	the giant not said here		place		to place in the moat	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from place=Initial_Location to place=Destination
7	not get out	could	giant				out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	revenge	to-infinitive · passive	giant not said here					tree rules

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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