More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 61

He met Tom like a lion as though he would have swallowed him. "

Who acts: Tom · What happens: meet, swallow · To what, where: Tom

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: who acts (Tom), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 met	nsubj
2	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 met	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 lion	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lion	det
6	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 met	obl
7	as	as	ADV	_	12 swallowed	advmod
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 swallowed	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 swallowed	nsubj:pass
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 swallowed	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 swallowed	aux
12	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 met	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 swallowed	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 met	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	Tom	Tom				like a lion	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tom=Co-Agent
2	swallow	would · perfect · passive		Tom					tree rules

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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