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title: Jack seized the knife, and holding it with both his hands drove the… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Jack seized the knife, and holding it with both his hands drove the blade into the single eye of the giant, who woke with a howl of agony, and starting up, barred the door. Who acts: Jack, holding, single eye, agony. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 7

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Jack seized the knife, and holding it with both his hands drove the blade into the single eye of the giant, who woke with a howl of agony, and starting up, barred the door.

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**Who acts:** Jack, holding, single eye, agony · **What happens:** seize, hold, drive, wake, start up, bar · **To what, where:** knife, hold, blade, single eye, door

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, holding, single eye, agony), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:23:7
# text = Jack seized the knife, and holding it with both his hands drove the blade into the single eye of the giant, who woke with a howl of agony, and starting up, barred the door.
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	howl	howl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	agony	agony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	starting	start	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	barred	bar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | Jack | the knife |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund |  | hold |  |  |  | with knife's hands | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **drive** | past | holding | the blade |  | the single eye of the giant |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent blade=Theme into eye=Trajectory |
| 4 | **wake** | past | the single eye of the giant |  |  |  |  | with a howl of agony | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with howl=Instrument |
| 5 | **start up** | gerund | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **bar** | past | Jack *not said here* | the door |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer door=Theme |
| 7 | **howl** |  | agony |  |  |  |  |  | nom howl «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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