English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 90

Jack now resolved to enter the giant's cave in search of his treasure, and, passing along through a great many windings and turnings, he came at length to a large room paved with freestone, at the upper end of which was a boiling caldron, and on the right hand a large table, at which the giant used to dine.

Who acts: Jack, upper end · What happens: resolve, enter, pass along, come, pave, boil · To what, where: right hand, cave, search, great many windings, length, large room

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, upper end), 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 resolved	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 resolved	advmod
3	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 enter	mark
5	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 resolved	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cave	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 giant	case
9	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 enter	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 search	case
11	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 enter	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 treasure	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 treasure	nmod:poss
14	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 search	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 came	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 and	punct
18	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 came	advcl
19	along	along	ADV	_	18 passing	advmod
20	through	through	ADP	_	24 windings	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 windings	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 windings	amod
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 windings	amod
24	windings	winding	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 passing	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 turnings	cc
26	turnings	turning	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 windings	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 passing	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 resolved	conj
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 length	case
31	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 room	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 room	det
34	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 room	amod
35	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 length	nmod
36	paved	pave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 room	acl
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 freestone	case
38	freestone	freestone	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 paved	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 end	punct
40	at	at	ADP	_	43 end	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 end	det
42	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 end	amod
43	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 which	case
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 caldron	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 caldron	cop
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 caldron	det
48	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 caldron	amod
49	caldron	caldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 end	acl:relcl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 hand	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 hand	cc
52	on	on	ADP	_	55 hand	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 hand	det
54	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 hand	amod
55	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 resolved	obl
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 table	det
57	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 table	amod
58	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 hand	conj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 which	punct
60	at	at	ADP	_	61 which	case
61	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 hand	nmod
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 giant	det
63	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 which	nsubj
64	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	63 giant	acl
65	to	to	PART	_	66 dine	mark
66	dine	dine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 used	xcomp
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 resolved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resolve	past	Jack		the right hand and a large table	now		tree rules
2	enter	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	the giant's cave	search of Jack's treasure			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cave=Destination
3	pass along	gerund	Jack not said here		a great many windings and turnings		along property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through winding=Location
4	come	past	Jack		length to a large room	at the upper end		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location
5	pave	participle		a large room not said here			with freestone	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with freestone=Theme
6	boil	gerund						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	is a	past	the upper end	a boiling caldron				tree rules
8	use	participle		the giant not said here				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	dine	to-infinitive						vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	search			Jack's treasure				nom search «act transitive»: of=patient
11	treasure		Jack					nom treasure «possession transitive»: 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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