English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 125

Now, when he had reached the top of the mountain he soon discovered the two fiery griffins, but passed them without fear, because of his invisible coat.

Who acts: Jack, top · What happens: reach, discover, pass · To what, where: two fiery griffins, griffins

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, top), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 reached	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 reached	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 reached	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reached	aux
6	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 top	det
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 discovered	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 mountain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mountain	det
11	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 top	nmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 discovered	nsubj
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 discovered	advmod
14	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reached	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 griffins	det
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 griffins	nummod
17	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 griffins	amod
18	griffins	griffin	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 discovered	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 passed	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 passed	cc
21	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 discovered	advcl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 passed	obj
23	without	without	ADP	_	24 fear	case
24	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 passed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 coat	punct
26	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	30 coat	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	26 because	fixed
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 coat	nmod:poss
29	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 coat	amod
30	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 passed	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past · perfect	Jack		now		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	discover	past	the top of the mountain	the two fiery griffins		soon property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent griffin=Topic
3	pass	past	the top of the mountain not said here	griffins = griffin		without fear; because Jack's invisible coat	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory

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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