English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 21

Jack, having told his condition to the giant, was shown into a bedroom, where, in the dead of night, he heard his host in another apartment muttering these words:

Who acts: Jack · What happens: tell, show, hear, mutter, condition · To what, where: condition, giant, bedroom, host, apartment, words · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	4 told	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Jack	punct
3	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 told	aux
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 condition	nmod:poss
6	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 giant	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giant	det
9	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shown	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 shown	aux:pass
12	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 told	parataxis
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 bedroom	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bedroom	det
15	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shown	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 where	punct
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 bedroom	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dead	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 dead	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dead	det
21	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shown	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 night	case
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dead	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 heard	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 heard	nsubj
26	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 host	nmod:poss
28	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heard	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 apartment	case
30	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	31 apartment	det
31	apartment	apartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heard	obl
32	muttering	mutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 heard	advcl
33	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 words	det
34	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 muttering	obj
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund · perfect	Jack	Jack's condition	the giant		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent condition=Topic to giant=Recipient
2	show	past · passive				a bedroom	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: into bedroom=Recipient
3	hear	past	Jack	Jack's host		another apartment	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer host=Stimulus
4	mutter speech: assert	gerund	Jack not said here	this words			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
5	condition		Jack				nom condition «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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