English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 6

While he was sleeping, the giant, coming there for water, discovered him, and knew him to be the far-famed Jack the Giant-killer by the lines written on the belt.

Who acts: Jack, lines · What happens: sleep, come, discover, know, fame, write · To what, where: giant, Jack, lines, belt

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, lines), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 sleeping	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sleeping	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sleeping	aux
4	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 discovered	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sleeping	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sleeping	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 coming	punct
9	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sleeping	conj
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 coming	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 water	case
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 coming	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sleeping	punct
14	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 discovered	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 knew	cc
18	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 discovered	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 knew	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	25 famed	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 famed	aux:pass
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 famed	det
23	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 famed	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 far	punct
25	famed	fame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 knew	advcl
26	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 famed	obj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 killer	det
28	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 killer	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 Giant	punct
30	killer	killer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 famed	obj
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 lines	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 lines	det
33	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 famed	obl
34	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 lines	acl
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 belt	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 belt	det
37	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 written	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 discovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sleep	past · progressive	Jack	the giant			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme
2	come	gerund	Jack not said here		there	for water	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	discover	past		Jack			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
4	know	past		Jack			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	fame	to-infinitive · passive	the lines	Jack			tree rules
6	write	participle		the lines not said here	the belt		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on belt=Destination

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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