English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 88
But Jack, running behind, drove his sword up to the hilt in the giant's back, so that he fell down dead.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: run behind, drive, sword up, fall down
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 drove | cc |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 drove | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 running | punct |
| 4 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Jack | acl |
| 5 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 4 running | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jack | punct |
| 7 | drove | drive | 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 sword | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sword | sword | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 drove | xcomp |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 sword | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 hilt | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hilt | det |
| 13 | hilt | hilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sword | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 back | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 giant | det |
| 16 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 back | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 giant | case |
| 18 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hilt | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fell | punct |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 fell | mark |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 so | fixed |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fell | nsubj |
| 23 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sword | advcl |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 25 dead | advmod |
| 25 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fell | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run behind | gerund | Jack not said here | behind property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drive | past | Jack | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | |||||
| 3 | sword up | infinitive | Jack not said here | to the hilt in the giant's back | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fall down | past | Jack | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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