--- title: The giant, passing by and seeing Jack, carried him to his castle, wh… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The giant, passing by and seeing Jack, carried him to his castle, where he locked him up in a large room, the floor of which was covered with the bodies, skulls and bones of men and women. Who acts: giant, Jack. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Jack the Giant-killer --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/54/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The History of Jack the Giant-killer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/54/) / 13 # The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 13 The giant, passing by and seeing Jack, carried him to his castle, where he locked him up in a large room, the floor of which was covered with the bodies, skulls and bones of men and women. **Who acts:** giant, Jack · **What happens:** pass by, see, carry, lock up, cover · **To what, where:** Jack, castle, Cormoran, large room This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of 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, Jack), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:54:13 # text = The giant, passing by and seeing Jack, carried him to his castle, where he locked him up in a large room, the floor of which was covered with the bodies, skulls and bones of men and women. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 passing pass VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 conj _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 4 fixed _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 8 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 18 advmod _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 locked lock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 obl _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl:relcl _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 skulls skull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass by** | gerund | the giant *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **see** | gerund | the giant *not said here* | Jack | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jack=Stimulus | | 3 | **carry** | past | the giant | Jack | | Jack's castle | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to castle=Destination | | 4 | **lock up** | past | Jack | Cormoran | | a large room | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 5 | **cover** | past · passive | | | | | | of the floor; with the bodies and skulls and bones of men and women | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with body=Theme | 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:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/54/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/54/14/) - ↑ back to [The History of Jack the Giant-killer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/54/)