English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 82
Jack soon went searching for giants again, but he had not ridden far, when he saw a cave, near the entrance of which he beheld a giant sitting upon a block of timber, with a knotted iron club by his side.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: go, search, not ride, see, behold, sit · To what, where: cave, block
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), 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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | searching | search | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 went | xcomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 giants | case |
| 6 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 searching | obl |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 searching | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ridden | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 ridden | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ridden | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ridden | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 ridden | advmod |
| 13 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 ridden | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 saw | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cave | det |
| 20 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 entrance | punct |
| 22 | near | near | ADP | _ | 24 entrance | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 entrance | det |
| 24 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 beheld | obl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 beheld | nsubj |
| 28 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 entrance | acl:relcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 sitting | det |
| 30 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 sitting | amod |
| 31 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 beheld | ccomp |
| 32 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 34 block | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 block | det |
| 34 | block | block | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sitting | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 timber | case |
| 36 | timber | timber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 block | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 club | punct |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 club | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 club | det |
| 40 | knotted | knot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 club | amod |
| 41 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 club | compound |
| 42 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sitting | obl |
| 43 | by | by | ADP | _ | 45 side | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 side | nmod:poss |
| 45 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 club | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Jack | soon property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | search | gerund | Jack not said here | again | for giants | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for giant=Theme | |||
| 3 | not ride | past · perfect | Jack | far property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Jack | a cave | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cave=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | behold | past | Jack | of the entrance | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sit | gerund | Jack not said here | a block of timber | with a knotted iron club by Jack's side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon block=Location | |||
| 7 | knot | participle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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