English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 9

His terror was only begun, for, on entering the castle, he saw the ground strewed with human bones, and the giant told him his own would ere long be among them.

Who acts: Jack, giant · What happens: begin, enter, see, strew, tell, be · To what, where: terror, castle, ground, Jack · Speech: someone speaks here

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, giant), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 terror	nmod:poss
2	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 begun	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 begun	aux:pass
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 begun	advmod
5	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 entering	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 entering	mark
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 entering	punct
9	on	on	SCONJ	_	10 entering	mark
10	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 begun	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 castle	det
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 entering	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 begun	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ground	det
17	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	obj
18	strewed	strew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 ground	acl
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 bones	case
20	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bones	amod
21	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 strewed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 told	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 told	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 giant	det
25	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 told	nsubj
26	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saw	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	iobj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 own	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 told	xcomp
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 them	aux
31	ere	ere	ADV	_	32 long	advmod
32	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 them	advmod
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 them	cop
34	among	among	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 begun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past · passive		Jack's terror			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	enter	gerund		the castle			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme castle=Destination
3	see	past	Jack	the ground			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ground=Stimulus
4	strew	participle		the ground not said here		with human bones	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with bone=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past	the giant		Jack	own property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	is	would				among bones = bone; long property	tree rules

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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