--- title: Jack, with his sword of sharpness, soon killed the giant, and the ma… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Jack, with his sword of sharpness, soon killed the giant, and the magician was then carried away by a whirlwind; and every knight and beautiful lady who had been changed into birds and beasts returned to their proper shapes. Who acts: Jack, whirlwind, knight. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by A --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/54/68/) [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/) / 68 # The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 68 Jack, with his sword of sharpness, soon killed the giant, and the magician was then carried away by a whirlwind; and every knight and beautiful lady who had been changed into birds and beasts returned to their proper shapes. **Who acts:** Jack, whirlwind, knight · **What happens:** kill, carry away, change, return · **To what, where:** giant, magician, beautiful lady 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 (Jack, whirlwind, knight), 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:pg503:54:68 # text = Jack, with his sword of sharpness, soon killed the giant, and the magician was then carried away by a whirlwind; and every knight and beautiful lady who had been changed into birds and beasts returned to their proper shapes. 1 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 sharpness sharpness NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 9 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ _ 10 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 19 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 20 away away ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 whirlwind whirlwind NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 26 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 31 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl:relcl _ _ 35 into into ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 conj _ _ 39 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 shapes shape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kill** | past | Jack | the giant | | | | soon *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme | | 2 | **carry away** | past · passive | a whirlwind | the magician | | | then | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 3 | **change** | past · perfect · passive | | beautiful lady | | | | into birds and beasts *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into bird=Result | | 4 | **return** | past | every knight and beautiful lady | | | | | to knights's proper shapes *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to shape=Result | 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 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/54/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/54/69/) - ↑ back to [The History of Jack the Giant-killer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/54/)