English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 93

“We are kept here,” said one, “till such time as the giants have a wish to feast, and then the fattest among us is slaughtered!

Who acts: giants · What happens: keep, say, have, feast, slaughter · To what, where: We, one, wish, fattest · 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 (giants), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	aux:pass
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	ccomp
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 kept	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 time	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 time	punct
12	till	till	ADP	_	14 time	case
13	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 one	appos
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 have	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 giants	det
17	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 time	acl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 wish	det
20	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 feast	mark
22	feast	feast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wish	acl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 slaughtered	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 slaughtered	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 fattest	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fattest	det
27	fattest	fat	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 slaughtered	nsubj:pass
28	among	among	ADP	_	29 us	case
29	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 fattest	obl
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 slaughtered	aux:pass
31	slaughtered	slaughter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	conj
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	keep in a quote	present · passive		We	here	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	say speech: express	past		one		tree rules
3	have in a quote	present	the giants	a wish		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient
4	feast in a quote	to-infinitive	the giants not said here	a wish not said here		vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	slaughter in a quote	present · passive		the fattest		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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