--- title: Then the giant stooping to take up his club, Jack at one blow cut of… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the giant stooping to take up his club, Jack at one blow cut off his head; whereupon the conjurer, mounting up into the air, was carried away in a whirlwind. Who acts: one blow, conjurer. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer, with its dependency tree and t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/129/) [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/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Jack the Giant-killer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/) / 129 # English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 129 Then the giant stooping to take up his club, Jack at one blow cut off his head; whereupon the conjurer, mounting up into the air, was carried away in a whirlwind. **Who acts:** one blow, conjurer · **What happens:** stoop, take up, cut off, mount up, carry away · **To what, where:** club, one blow, head, air, conjurer, whirlwind 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 (one blow, conjurer), 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:pg7439:23:129 # text = Then the giant stooping to take up his club, Jack at one blow cut off his head; whereupon the conjurer, mounting up into the air, was carried away in a whirlwind. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 stooping stoop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 15 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 off off ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 20 whereupon whereupon ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 conjurer conjurer NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 mounting mount VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 32 away away ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 whirlwind whirlwind NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stoop** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take up** | to-infinitive | | Jack's club | | one blow | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent club=Theme at blow=Asset | | 3 | **cut off** | participle | one blow *not said here* | Jack's head | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | | 4 | **mount up** | gerund | the conjurer *not said here* | | | the air | | | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Location | | 5 | **carry away** | past · passive | | the conjurer | | a whirlwind | | away, whereupon *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in whirlwind=Location | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/128/) - next →: [sentence 130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/130/) - ↑ back to [Jack the Giant-killer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/)