English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 129
Then the giant stooping to take up his club, Jack at one blow cut off his head; whereupon the conjurer, mounting up into the air, was carried away in a whirlwind.
Who acts: one blow, conjurer · What happens: stoop, take up, cut off, mount up, carry away · To what, where: club, one blow, head, air, conjurer, whirlwind
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 (one blow, conjurer), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 giant | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 giant | det |
| 3 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | stooping | stoop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 giant | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 take | mark |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stooping | xcomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 take | compound:prt |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 club | nmod:poss |
| 9 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Jack | punct |
| 11 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 club | appos |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 blow | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 blow | nummod |
| 14 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obl |
| 15 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 blow | acl |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 cut | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cut | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 carried | punct |
| 20 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 carried | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 conjurer | det |
| 22 | conjurer | conjurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 mounting | punct |
| 24 | mounting | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 conjurer | acl |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 mounting | compound:prt |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 air | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 air | det |
| 28 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mounting | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 conjurer | punct |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 carried | aux:pass |
| 31 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 giant | parataxis |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 carried | advmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 whirlwind | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 whirlwind | det |
| 35 | whirlwind | whirlwind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 carried | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 giant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | take up | to-infinitive | Jack's club | one blow | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent club=Theme at blow=Asset | ||||
| 3 | cut off | participle | one blow not said here | Jack's head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | mount up | gerund | the conjurer not said here | the air | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Location | ||||
| 5 | carry away | past · passive | the conjurer | a whirlwind | away, whereupon property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in whirlwind=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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