English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 86
The giant all this while could not see him, on account of his invisible coat, so that Jack, coming up close to the monster, struck a blow with his sword at his head, but, missing his aim, he cut off the nose instead.
Who acts: giant while, Jack · What happens: not see, come up, strike, miss, cut off, account · To what, where: Jack, account, blow, head, aim, nose
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 (giant while, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 while | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 while | amod |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 while | det:predet |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 while | det |
| 5 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 see | advmod |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 see | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 account | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 account | case |
| 12 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 coat | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 coat | nmod:poss |
| 15 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 coat | amod |
| 16 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 account | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Jack | punct |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 20 Jack | case |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 coming | punct |
| 22 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 struck | advcl |
| 23 | up | up | ADV | _ | 24 close | advmod |
| 24 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 coming | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 monster | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 monster | det |
| 27 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 close | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 struck | punct |
| 29 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 blow | det |
| 31 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 struck | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 sword | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 sword | nmod:poss |
| 34 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 blow | nmod |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 head | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 head | nmod:poss |
| 37 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 struck | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 cut | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 cut | cc |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 missing | punct |
| 41 | missing | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 46 cut | ccomp |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 aim | nmod:poss |
| 43 | aim | aim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 missing | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 missing | punct |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 cut | nsubj |
| 46 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 struck | parataxis |
| 47 | off | off | ADP | _ | 46 cut | compound:prt |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 nose | det |
| 49 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 cut | obj |
| 50 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 46 cut | advmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | could | the giant while | Jack | account of Jack's invisible coat | so Jack | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | come up | gerund | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | strike | past | the giant while not said here | a blow | Jack's head | with Jack's sword | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent blow=Patient with sword=Instrument | ||
| 4 | miss | gerund | Jack not said here | Jack's aim | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer aim=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | cut off | past | Jack | the nose | instead property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | account | Jack's invisible coat | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | aim | Jack | nom aim «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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