English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 31

Then, telling the giant he would show him a trick, taking a knife, Jack ripped open the bag, and out came all the hasty pudding.

Who acts: Jack, giant · What happens: tell, show, take, rip, open, come · To what, where: giant, trick, Jack, knife, bag, hasty pudding · 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, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 telling	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 ripped	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
5	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 telling	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 show	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 show	aux
8	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 giant	acl:relcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 show	iobj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 trick	det
11	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 show	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 taking	punct
13	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 telling	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 knife	det
15	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 taking	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 telling	punct
17	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 ripped	nsubj
18	ripped	rip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 ripped	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bag	det
21	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 open	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 came	cc
24	out	out	ADV	_	25 came	advmod
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ripped	conj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 pudding	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pudding	det
28	hasty	hasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 pudding	amod
29	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 ripped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund	Jack not said here		the giant	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent giant=Recipient
2	show	would	giant	a trick	Jack			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient trick=Topic
3	take	gerund	Jack not said here	a knife				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
4	rip	past	Jack					tree rules
5	open	infinitive	Jack not said here	the bag				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bag=Theme
6	come	past	Jack not said here	all hasty pudding			out property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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