More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 60

At last the giant spied him, and came up speedily, intending to take his beer for a prize.

What happens: spy, come up, intend, take · To what, where: Tom, beer

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 giant	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 giant	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spied	obl
5	spied	spy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spied	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 came	cc
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spied	conj
10	up	up	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	speedily	speedily	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 intending	punct
13	intending	intend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 came	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 take	mark
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 intending	xcomp
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 beer	nmod:poss
17	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 prize	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 prize	det
20	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spy	past	Tom	at the last giant	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	come up	past		speedily property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	intend	gerund			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	Tom's beer	for a prize	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent beer=Theme for prize=Beneficiary

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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