English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 3

The news of Jack's victory soon spread over all the West of England, so that another giant, named Blunderbore, hearing of it, vowed to be revenged on Jack, if ever he should light on him.

Who acts: news, man · What happens: spread, name, vow, revenge, light, hear · To what, where: West, Jack

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 (news, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 news	det
2	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spread	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 victory	case
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 victory	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Jack	case
6	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 news	nmod
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 spread	advmod
8	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	over	over	ADP	_	12 West	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 West	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 West	det
12	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 spread	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 England	case
14	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 West	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 named	punct
16	so	so	SCONJ	_	21 named	mark
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 giant	mark
18	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	19 giant	det
19	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 named	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 giant	punct
21	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 spread	conj
22	Blunderbore	Blunderbore	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 named	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hearing	punct
24	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Blunderbore	appos
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hearing	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 vowed	punct
28	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 spread	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	31 revenged	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 revenged	aux:pass
31	revenged	revenge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 vowed	xcomp
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 Jack	case
33	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 revenged	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 light	punct
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 light	mark
36	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	39 light	advmod
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 light	nsubj
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 light	aux
39	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 vowed	conj
40	on	on	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 light	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	past	the news of Jack's victory	all West of England		soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over west=Location
2	name	participle	the news of Jack's victory not said here				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	vow	past	the news of Jack's victory not said here				tree rules
4	revenge not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	the news of Jack's victory not said here	Jack			tree rules
5	light a condition, not said to happen	should	man		ever	on Jack	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	hear		news				nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=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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