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English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 91

Then he came to a window, barred with iron, through which he looked and beheld a vast number of miserable captives, who, seeing him, cried out: “Alas! young man, art thou come to be one amongst us in this miserable den?”

Who acts: giant, miserable captives · What happens: come, bar, look, behold, see, cry out · To what, where: young man, window, vast number, giant, miserable den, one · 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 (giant, miserable captives), 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

advmodnsubjcasedetoblpunctaclcaseoblpunctcaseoblnsubjconjccconjdetamodobjcaseamodnmodpunctnsubjpunctaclobjpunctconjcompound:prtpunctpunctdiscoursepunctamodoblpunctacl:relclobjxcompmarkcopadvclcasenmodcasedetamodoblpunctpunctrootThenADVhePRONcameVERBtoADPaDETwindowNOUN,PUNCTbarredVERBwithADPironNOUN,PUNCTthroughADPwhichPRONhePRONlookedVERBandCCONJbeheldVERBaDETvastADJnumberNOUNofADPmiserableADJcaptivesNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRON,PUNCTseeingVERBhimPRON,PUNCTcriedVERBoutADP:PUNCT“PUNCTAlasINTJ!PUNCTyoungADJmanNOUN,PUNCTartAUXthouPRONcomeVERBtoPARTbeAUXoneNUMamongstADPusPRONinADPthisDETmiserableADJdenNOUN?PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 cameadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 camensubj
3camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4totoADP_6 windowcase
5aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 windowdet
6windowwindowNOUNNumber=Sing3 cameobl
7,,PUNCT_8 barredpunct
8barredbarVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 windowacl
9withwithADP_10 ironcase
10ironironNOUNNumber=Sing8 barredobl
11,,PUNCT_15 lookedpunct
12throughthroughADP_13 whichcase
13whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel15 lookedobl
14hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 lookednsubj
15lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 cameconj
16andandCCONJ_17 beheldcc
17beheldbeholdVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 lookedconj
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 numberdet
19vastvastADJDegree=Pos20 numberamod
20numbernumberNOUNNumber=Sing17 beheldobj
21ofofADP_23 captivescase
22miserablemiserableADJDegree=Pos23 captivesamod
23captivescaptiveNOUNNumber=Plur20 numbernmod
24,,PUNCT_27 seeingpunct
25whowhoPRONPronType=Rel27 seeingnsubj
26,,PUNCT_27 seeingpunct
27seeingseeVERBVerbForm=Ger23 captivesacl
28himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 seeingobj
29,,PUNCT_30 criedpunct
30criedcryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 cameconj
31outoutADP_30 criedcompound:prt
32::PUNCT_37 manpunct
33“"PUNCT_37 manpunct
34AlasalasINTJ_37 mandiscourse
35!!PUNCT_34 Alaspunct
36youngyoungADJDegree=Pos37 manamod
37manmanNOUNNumber=Sing3 cameobl
38,,PUNCT_39 artpunct
39artbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin37 manacl:relcl
40thouthouPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch39 artobj
41comecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf39 artxcomp
42totoPART_44 onemark
43bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf44 onecop
44oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card41 comeadvcl
45amongstamongstADP_46 uscase
46uswePRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs44 onenmod
47ininADP_50 dencase
48thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem50 dendet
49miserablemiserableADJDegree=Pos50 denamod
50dendenNOUNNumber=Sing41 comeobl
51??PUNCT_37 manpunct
52”"PUNCT_37 manpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepastgiantyoung mana windowthenvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to window=Initial_Location
2barparticiplea window not said herewith ironvn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
3lookpastgiantvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through which=Theme
4beholdpastgiant not said herea vast number of miserable captivesvn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus
5seegerundmiserable captivesgiantvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
6cry out speech: expresspastgiant not said herevn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7come in a quoteinfinitivegiant not said herethis miserable denvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in den=Location
8is a in a quoteto-infinitivegiant not said hereoneamongst ustree 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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