English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 89

This done, Jack cut off the giant's head, and sent it, with his brother's also, to King Arthur, by a waggoner he hired for that purpose.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: do, cut off, send, hire · To what, where: This, head, hilt, King Arthur

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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 done	nsubj:pass
2	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cut	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 done	punct
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cut	nsubj
5	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	10 head	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 giant	det
8	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 head	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 giant	case
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sent	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sent	cc
13	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sent	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 also	punct
16	with	with	SCONJ	_	20 also	mark
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 brother	nmod:poss
18	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 also	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 brother	case
20	also	also	ADV	_	13 sent	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Arthur	punct
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 Arthur	case
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Arthur	compound
24	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 sent	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hired	punct
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 waggoner	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 waggoner	det
28	waggoner	waggoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hired	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hired	nsubj
30	hired	hire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sent	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 purpose	case
32	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 purpose	det
33	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hired	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	participle · passive		This			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	cut off	past	Jack	the giant's head			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
3	send	past		hilt	King Arthur		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to arthur=Destination
4	hire	past	Jack			by a waggoner; for that purpose	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for purpose=Beneficiary

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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