English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 58

Having secured the giant, Jack fetched his master, when they made themselves heartily merry whilst the poor giant lay trembling in a vault under the ground.

Who acts: Jack, keys, poor giant · What happens: have, secure, fetch, make, lie, tremble · To what, where: master, keys, vault

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, keys, poor 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	Having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 fetched	advcl
2	secured	secure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Having	xcomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 secured	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Having	punct
6	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fetched	nsubj
7	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 master	nmod:poss
9	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fetched	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 made	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fetched	conj
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 made	obj
15	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	16 merry	advmod
16	merry	merry	ADV	_	13 made	advmod
17	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	21 lay	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 giant	det
19	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 giant	amod
20	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lay	nsubj
21	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	advcl
22	trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 lay	xcomp
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 vault	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 vault	det
25	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 trembling	obl
26	under	under	ADP	_	28 ground	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ground	det
28	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 trembling	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fetched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	Jack not said here				tree rules
2	secure	participle	Jack not said here			giant property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	fetch	past	Jack	Jack's master			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme
4	make	past	keys = key	keys = key		merry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product
5	lie	past	the poor giant				tree rules
6	tremble	gerund	the poor giant not said here		a vault	under the ground	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in vault=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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