English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 30

Being loth to let the giant think it too much for him, Jack put a large leather bag under his loose coat, in such a way that he could convey the pudding into it without its being perceived.

Who acts: giant, Jack · What happens: be, let, think, put, convey, perceive · To what, where: giant, bowl, large leather bag, loose coat, pudding

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 (giant, 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	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 loth	cop
2	loth	loth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 let	mark
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 loth	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 let	obj
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 think	obj
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 think	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 much	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct
14	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 put	nsubj
15	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 loth	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bag	det
17	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bag	amod
18	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bag	compound
19	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obj
20	under	under	ADP	_	23 coat	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 coat	nmod:poss
22	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 coat	amod
23	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 way	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 way	case
26	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	28 way	det:predet
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 way	det
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 convey	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 convey	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 convey	aux
32	convey	convey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 way	acl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 pudding	det
34	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 convey	obj
35	into	into	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 convey	obl
37	without	without	SCONJ	_	40 perceived	mark
38	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 perceived	nsubj:pass
39	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 perceived	aux:pass
40	perceived	perceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 convey	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 loth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	gerund				loth property	tree rules
2	let	to-infinitive		the giant			tree rules
3	think speech: other	infinitive	the giant not said here	bowl			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme much=Attribute
4	put	past	Jack	a large leather bag	Jack's loose coat	in such way	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme under coat=Destination
5	convey	could	Jack	the pudding	bowl		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pudding=Topic
6	perceive	gerund · passive		bowl			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus

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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