More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 81
And as all giants who _are_ bottle-makers usually pop out of a little thumb-bottle from behind the door, so did Sir G. Vans.
Who acts: giants · What happens: be, pop out, do · To what, where: _ bottle makers, little thumb bottle, Sir G. Vans
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giants), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 giants | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 giants | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 giants | det |
| 4 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 pop | nsubj |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 makers | punct |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 makers | cop |
| 8 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 makers | amod |
| 9 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 makers | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 bottle | punct |
| 11 | makers | maker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pop | nsubj |
| 12 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 13 pop | advmod |
| 13 | pop | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 giants | parataxis |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 bottle | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 bottle | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bottle | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bottle | amod |
| 18 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bottle | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 thumb | punct |
| 20 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pop | obl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 door | case |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 24 door | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 door | det |
| 24 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bottle | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 did | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 did | advmod |
| 27 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 pop | advcl |
| 28 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Vans | compound |
| 29 | G. | G. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Vans | compound |
| 30 | Vans | Van | PROPN | Number=Plur | 27 did | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 giants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | _ bottle makers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pop out | present | all giants | a little thumb bottle from the door | usually property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient | |||
| 3 | do | past | all giants not said here | Sir G. Vans | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent van=Eventuality |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/81/