More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 67

Tom knew not what to do for a weapon; his whip would be but little good against a monstrous beast twelve foot in length and six foot about the waist.

Who acts: Tom, whip · What happens: not know, do, be · Speech: someone speaks here

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, whip), 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	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 knew	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knew	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 weapon	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 weapon	det
9	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 good	punct
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 whip	nmod:poss
12	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 good	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 good	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 good	cop
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 good	cc
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 good	amod
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knew	conj
18	against	against	ADP	_	21 beast	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 beast	det
20	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 beast	amod
21	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 good	obl
22	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 beast	flat
23	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 beast	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 length	case
25	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 foot	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 foot	cc
27	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 foot	nummod
28	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 beast	conj
29	about	about	ADP	_	31 waist	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 waist	det
31	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 foot	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not know	past	Tom		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	to-infinitive		for a weapon	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	is	would	Tom's whip	against a monstrous beast and foot in length and six foot about the waist; good property	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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