More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 73

Now this twig was as thick as some mileposts are, but Tom was not daunted for all that, though the giant made at him with such force that the wheel cracked again.

Who acts: twig, wheel · What happens: be, not daunt, make, crack · To what, where: Tom, giant, such force

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 (twig, wheel), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 thick	advmod
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 twig	det
3	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thick	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thick	cop
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 thick	advmod
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 mileposts	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 mileposts	det
9	mileposts	milepost	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thick	obl
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thick	cop
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 daunted	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 daunted	cc
13	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 daunted	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 daunted	aux:pass
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 daunted	advmod
16	daunted	daunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 thick	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 that	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 that	det
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 daunted	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 giant	punct
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 giant	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 giant	det
23	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 daunted	parataxis
24	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 giant	acl
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 made	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 force	case
28	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 force	amod
29	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obl
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 cracked	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wheel	det
32	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cracked	nsubj
33	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 force	acl:relcl
34	again	again	ADV	_	33 cracked	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this twig		now	as some mileposts; thick property	tree rules
2	not daunt	past · passive		Tom		for that	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	make	participle		the giant not said here		at twig; with such force	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	crack	past	the wheel	such force not said here	again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location force=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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