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More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 11

So the lad said, "It's no use of thee, thou pair of legs, standing alone at the window, as thou hast no eye to see with, so go join thy brother;" and he cast the lower part of the giant after the top part.

Who acts: lad, cry, thou · What happens: say, be, pair, stand, have, see · To what, where: use, window, eye, brother, lower part · 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 (lad, cry, thou), 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

advmoddetnsubjpunctpunctnsubjcopdetccompcasenmodpunctnsubjconjcasenmodpunctconjadvmodcasedetoblpunctmarknsubjparataxisdetobjmarkadvcloblpunctadvmodadvclconjnmod:possobjpunctpunctccnsubjconjdetamodobjcasedetnmodcasedetamodoblpunctrootSoADVtheDETladNOUNsaidVERB,PUNCT"PUNCTItPRON'sAUXnoDETuseNOUNofADPtheePRON,PUNCTthouPRONpairNOUNofADPlegsNOUN,PUNCTstandingVERBaloneADVatADPtheDETwindowNOUN,PUNCTasSCONJthouPRONhastVERBnoDETeyeNOUNtoPARTseeVERBwithADP,PUNCTsoADVgoADJjoinVERBthyPRONbrotherNOUN;PUNCT"PUNCTandCCONJhePRONcastVERBtheDETlowerADJpartNOUNofADPtheDETgiantNOUNafterADPtheDETtopADJpartNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_4 saidadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 laddet
3ladladNOUNNumber=Sing4 saidnsubj
4saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5,,PUNCT_4 saidpunct
6""PUNCT_10 usepunct
7ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 usensubj
8'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 usecop
9nonoDETPronType=Neg10 usedet
10useuseNOUNNumber=Sing4 saidccomp
11ofofADP_12 theecase
12theethouPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch10 usenmod
13,,PUNCT_15 pairpunct
14thouthouPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch15 pairnsubj
15pairpairNOUNNumber=Sing10 useconj
16ofofADP_17 legscase
17legslegNOUNNumber=Plur15 pairnmod
18,,PUNCT_19 standingpunct
19standingstandVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part10 useconj
20alonealoneADV_19 standingadvmod
21atatADP_23 windowcase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 windowdet
23windowwindowNOUNNumber=Sing19 standingobl
24,,PUNCT_27 hastpunct
25asasSCONJ_27 hastmark
26thouthouPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch27 hastnsubj
27hasthaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 standingparataxis
28nonoDETPronType=Neg29 eyedet
29eyeeyeNOUNNumber=Sing27 hastobj
30totoPART_31 seemark
31seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf27 hastadvcl
32withwithADP_31 seeobl
33,,PUNCT_36 joinpunct
34sosoADV_35 goadvmod
35gogoADJDegree=Pos36 joinadvcl
36joinjoinVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 useconj
37thythyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch38 brothernmod:poss
38brotherbrotherNOUNNumber=Sing36 joinobj
39;;PUNCT_4 saidpunct
40""PUNCT_4 saidpunct
41andandCCONJ_43 castcc
42hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs43 castnsubj
43castcastVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 saidconj
44thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art46 partdet
45lowerlowADJDegree=Cmp46 partamod
46partpartNOUNNumber=Sing43 castobj
47ofofADP_49 giantcase
48thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art49 giantdet
49giantgiantNOUNNumber=Sing46 partnmod
50afterafterADP_53 partcase
51thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art53 partdet
52toptopADJDegree=Pos53 partamod
53partpartNOUNNumber=Sing43 castobl
54..PUNCT_4 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastthe ladvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2is a in a quotepresentcryno use and pairof theetree rules
3pair in a quotethouof legstree rules
4stand in a quotegerundcry not said herethe windowalone propertyvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location
5have in a quotepresentthouno eyevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
6see in a quoteto-infinitivethou not said herevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7join in a quotepresentcry not said herethy brothervn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient
8castpastladthe lower part of the giantafter the top partvn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Product

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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