English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 20

But what was his surprise when there came forth a monstrous giant with two heads; yet he did not appear so fiery as the others were, for he was a Welsh giant, and what he did was by private and secret malice under the false show of friendship.

Who acts: Jack, others · What happens: be, come, not appear, do, show · To what, where: surprise, monstrous giant, Welsh giant, false show, friendship

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, others), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 surprise	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 surprise	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprise	cop
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 surprise	nmod:poss
5	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 came	advmod
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 came	expl
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprise	acl:relcl
9	forth	forth	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 giant	det
11	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 giant	amod
12	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	xcomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 heads	case
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 heads	nummod
15	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 giant	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 appear	punct
17	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	21 appear	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 appear	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 appear	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 appear	advmod
21	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 surprise	parataxis
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 fiery	advmod
23	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 appear	xcomp
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 giant	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 others	det
26	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 giant	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 giant	cop
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 giant	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 giant	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 giant	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 giant	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 giant	det
33	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 giant	amod
34	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fiery	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 malice	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 malice	cc
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	45 malice	nsubj
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 did	nsubj
39	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 what	acl:relcl
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 malice	cop
41	by	by	ADP	_	45 malice	case
42	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 malice	amod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 secret	cc
44	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 private	conj
45	malice	malice	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 appear	obl
46	under	under	ADP	_	49 show	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 show	det
48	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 show	amod
49	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 malice	nmod
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 friendship	case
51	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 show	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 surprise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Jack's surprise			tree rules
2	come	past		a monstrous giant with two heads	there	forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not appear	past · do-support	Jack			fiery property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past	the others	a Welsh giant			tree rules
5	do	past	Jack				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past			the false show of friendship	by private malice	tree rules
7	show			friendship			nom show «act transitive»: of=patient

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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