English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 25

At the dead time of the night in came the Welsh giant, who struck several heavy blows on the bed with his club, thinking he had broken every bone in Jack's skin.

Who acts: Welsh giant, giant · What happens: come, strike, think, break · To what, where: several heavy blows, bone, skin · 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 (Welsh giant, giant), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 night	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	7 night	case
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 giant	det
11	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 giant	amod
12	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 struck	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 struck	nsubj
15	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 giant	acl:relcl
16	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 blows	amod
17	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 blows	amod
18	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 struck	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 bed	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bed	det
21	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 struck	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 club	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 club	nmod:poss
24	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 struck	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thinking	punct
26	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 struck	advcl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 broken	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 broken	aux
29	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 thinking	ccomp
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 bone	det
31	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 broken	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 skin	case
33	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 skin	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 Jack	case
35	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 broken	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Welsh giant			time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	strike	past	the Welsh giant	several heavy blows			with giant's club; on the bed	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent blow=Instrument on bed=Patient
3	think speech: other	gerund	the Welsh giant not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	break	past · perfect	giant	every bone	Jack's skin			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=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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