More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 10

There was a great cry from the bogles when they saw half the giant come tumbling down to them, and they called out, "There comes half our master, give us the other half."

Who acts: great cry, bogles · What happens: be, see, come, tumble down, call out, give · To what, where: bogles, master, other half, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great cry, bogles), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	parataxis
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cry	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cry	amod
5	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 bogles	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bogles	det
8	bogles	bogle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 was	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 saw	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	14 giant	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 giant	det
14	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 saw	xcomp
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 giant	xcomp
16	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 come	xcomp
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 tumbling	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tumbling	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 called	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 called	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 called	nsubj
23	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 called	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 comes	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 comes	punct
27	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 comes	expl
28	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 called	parataxis
29	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	31 master	advmod
30	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 master	nmod:poss
31	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 comes	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 give	punct
33	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 comes	conj
34	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 give	iobj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 half	det
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 half	amod
37	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	33 give	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a great cry			the bogles; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	bogles = bogle				giant property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	come	infinitive	bogles = bogle not said here					tree rules
4	tumble down	gerund	bogles = bogle not said here		bogles = bogle		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location
5	call out speech: assert	past	bogles = bogle					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	come in a quote	present		our master		there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	give in a quote	infinitive		the other half	us			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient half=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: «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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