More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 66

The giant took these words in high disdain, and ran into his cave to fetch his great club, intending to dash out Tom's brains at the first blow.

Who acts: giant · What happens: take, run, fetch, intend, dash out · To what, where: words, high disdain, cave, great club, brains, first blow

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 (giant), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 words	det
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 disdain	case
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 disdain	amod
8	disdain	disdain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 words	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ran	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ran	cc
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 cave	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 cave	nmod:poss
14	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ran	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 fetch	mark
16	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 ran	advcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 club	nmod:poss
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 club	amod
19	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fetch	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 intending	punct
21	intending	intend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 ran	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 dash	mark
23	dash	dash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 intending	xcomp
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 dash	compound:prt
25	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 brains	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 Tom	case
27	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 dash	obj
28	at	at	ADP	_	31 blow	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 blow	det
30	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	31 blow	amod
31	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dash	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the giant	this words	high disdain		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent word=Value in disdain=Location
2	run	past	the giant not said here			into head's cave result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into cave=Result
3	fetch	to-infinitive	the giant not said here	head's great club			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme
4	intend	gerund	the giant not said here				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	dash out not said to happen	to-infinitive	the giant not said here	Tom's brains	the first blow		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent brain=Theme at blow=Trajectory

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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