English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 97

But in the midst of all this mirth a messenger brought news that one Thunderdell, a giant with two heads, having heard of the death of his kinsmen, had come from the northern dales to be revenged on Jack, and was within a mile of the castle, the country people flying before him like chaff.

Who acts: country people, kinsmen · What happens: bring, hear, come, revenge, be, fly · To what, where: northern dales, Jack

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 (country people, kinsmen), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 news	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 midst	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 midst	det
4	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 news	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 mirth	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 mirth	det:predet
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 mirth	det
8	mirth	mirth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 midst	nmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 messenger	det
10	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 news	nsubj
11	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 news	amod
12	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 Thunderdell	mark
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 Thunderdell	nummod
15	Thunderdell	Thunderdell	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 news	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 giant	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 giant	det
18	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Thunderdell	appos
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 heads	case
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 heads	nummod
21	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 giant	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 heard	punct
23	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 heard	aux
24	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 giant	parataxis
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 death	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 death	det
27	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 heard	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 kinsmen	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 kinsmen	nmod:poss
30	kinsmen	kinsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 death	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 come	aux
33	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 heard	conj
34	from	from	ADP	_	37 dales	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 dales	det
36	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 dales	amod
37	dales	dale	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 come	obl
38	to	to	PART	_	40 revenged	mark
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 revenged	aux:pass
40	revenged	revenge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 dales	acl
41	on	on	ADP	_	42 Jack	case
42	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 revenged	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 mile	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 mile	cc
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 mile	cop
46	within	within	ADP	_	48 mile	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 mile	det
48	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 come	parataxis
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 castle	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 castle	det
51	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 mile	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 people	punct
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 people	det
54	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 people	compound
55	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 mile	parataxis
56	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	55 people	acl
57	before	before	ADP	_	58 him	case
58	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 flying	obl
59	like	like	ADP	_	60 chaff	case
60	chaff	chaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 flying	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 news	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	participle					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
2	hear	gerund · perfect				of the death of messenger's kinsmen	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of death=Stimulus
3	come	past · perfect		the northern dales			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from dale=Initial_Location
4	revenge	to-infinitive · passive		Jack			tree rules
5	is	past				within a mile; of the castle	tree rules
6	fly	gerund	the country people not said here		before messenger	like chaff	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location
7	die		messenger's kinsmen				nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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