English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 54

I am a giant with three heads, and besides thou knowest I can fight five hundred men in armour, and make them fly like chaff before the wind.”

Who acts: I, thou, heads · What happens: be, beside, know, fight, make, fly · To what, where: hundred men, armour, heads, wind · 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 (I, thou, heads), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 giant	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 giant	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 heads	case
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 heads	nummod
7	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 giant	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 besides	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 besides	cc
10	besides	beside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 giant	conj
11	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 knowest	nsubj
12	knowest	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 besides	ccomp
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 fight	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 fight	aux
15	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 knowest	ccomp
16	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 hundred	compound
17	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 men	nummod
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fight	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 armour	case
20	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fight	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 make	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 make	cc
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 giant	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 make	obj
25	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 make	xcomp
26	like	like	ADP	_	27 chaff	case
27	chaff	chaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fly	obl
28	before	before	ADP	_	30 wind	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wind	det
30	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fly	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 giant	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 giant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			with three heads; giant property	tree rules
2	beside	present	I not said here				tree rules
3	know	present	thou				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	fight	can	I	hundred men	armour		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
5	make	infinitive	I not said here	heads = head			tree rules
6	fly	infinitive	heads = head not said here		the wind	like chaff	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before wind=Location

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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