English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 13

Now, there were strong cords in a corner of the room in which Jack was, and two of these he took, and made a strong noose at the end; and while the giants were unlocking the iron gate of the castle he threw the ropes over each of their heads.

Who acts: strong cords, two, giants, Jack · What happens: be, take, make, unlock, throw · To what, where: strong noose, end, iron gate, ropes, each

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 (strong cords, two, giants, Jack), 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	4 were	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 were	expl
4	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cords	amod
6	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 were	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 corner	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 corner	det
9	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cords	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 room	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 room	det
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 corner	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 room	nmod
15	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 which	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 Jack	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 took	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 took	cc
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 took	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 these	case
21	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 two	nmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 took	nsubj
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 was	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 made	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 made	cc
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 took	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 noose	det
28	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 noose	amod
29	noose	noose	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 made	obj
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 end	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 end	det
32	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 made	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 threw	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 threw	cc
35	while	while	SCONJ	_	39 unlocking	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 giants	det
37	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 unlocking	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 unlocking	aux
39	unlocking	unlock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 threw	advcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 gate	det
41	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 gate	amod
42	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 unlocking	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 castle	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 castle	det
45	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 gate	nmod
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 threw	nsubj
47	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 were	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 ropes	det
49	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 threw	obj
50	over	over	ADP	_	51 each	case
51	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	47 threw	obl
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 heads	case
53	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 heads	nmod:poss
54	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 each	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	past	strong cords in a corner of the room in a corner of the room		there	now	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past	two of these				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	make	past	two of these not said here	a strong noose		at the end	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noose=Product
4	unlock	past · progressive	the giants	the iron gate of the castle			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Patient
5	throw	past	Jack	the ropes	each		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent rope=Theme over each=Destination

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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