English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 8

Now, as they passed through a thicket, the rustling of the boughs awakened Jack, who was strangely surprised to find himself in the clutches of the giant.

Who acts: shoulders, Jack · What happens: pass, awaken, be, find, rustle, clutch · To what, where: thicket, Jack, clutches, boughs, giant

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 (shoulders, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 awakened	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 passed	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 passed	nsubj
5	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 awakened	advcl
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 thicket	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thicket	det
8	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rustling	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rustling	det
11	rustling	rustling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thicket	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 boughs	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boughs	det
14	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 rustling	nmod
15	awakened	awaken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 awakened	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 surprised	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 surprised	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 surprised	cop
20	strangely	strangely	ADV	_	21 surprised	advmod
21	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Jack	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 find	mark
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 surprised	advcl
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 find	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 clutches	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 clutches	det
27	clutches	clutch	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 find	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 giant	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 giant	det
30	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 clutches	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 awakened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	shoulders = shoulder		a thicket			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through thicket=Location
2	awaken	past		Jack		now		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jack=Theme
3	is	past	Jack				strangely, surprised property	tree rules
4	find	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	Jack	the clutches of the giant			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
5	rustle			the boughs				nom rustling «act transitive»: of=patient
6	clutch			the giant				nom clutch «act transitive»: of=patient

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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