--- title: Jack soon went searching for giants again, but he had not ridden far… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Jack soon went searching for giants again, but he had not ridden far, when he saw a cave, near the entrance of which he beheld a giant sitting upon a block of timber, with a knotted iron club by his side. Who acts: Jack. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer, wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/82/) [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/) / 82 # English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 82 Jack soon went searching for giants again, but he had not ridden far, when he saw a cave, near the entrance of which he beheld a giant sitting upon a block of timber, with a knotted iron club by his side. **Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** go, search, not ride, see, behold, sit · **To what, where:** cave, block 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 (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:pg7439:23:82 # text = Jack soon went searching for giants again, but he had not ridden far, when he saw a cave, near the entrance of which he beheld a giant sitting upon a block of timber, with a knotted iron club by his side. 1 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 searching search VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 ridden ride VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 14 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 near near ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 entrance entrance NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 obl _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 beheld behold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 ccomp _ _ 32 upon upon ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 block block NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 timber timber NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 40 knotted knot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 amod _ _ 41 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 43 by by ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Jack | | | | | soon *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **search** | gerund | Jack *not said here* | | | | again | for giants | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for giant=Theme | | 3 | **not** **ride** | past · perfect | Jack | | | | | far *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **see** | past | Jack | a cave | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cave=Stimulus | | 5 | **behold** | past | Jack | | | | | of the entrance | tree rules | | 6 | **sit** | gerund | Jack *not said here* | | | a block of timber | | with a knotted iron club by Jack's side | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon block=Location | | 7 | **knot** | participle | | | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/81/) - next →: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/83/) - ↑ back to [Jack the Giant-killer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/)