More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 70

Out came the giant and began to stare at Tom. "

What happens: come, begin, stare · To what, where: giant

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	Out	out	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 began	cc
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stare	mark
8	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 Tom	case
10	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 stare	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the giant	out property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location giant=Theme
2	begin	past			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	stare	to-infinitive		at Tom	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tom=Theme

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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