More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 74
But Tom gave as good as he got, taking the giant such a weighty blow on the side of the head that he reeled again. "
Who acts: Tom · What happens: give, get, take, reel · To what, where: good, giant weighty blow, side
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 gave | cc |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 good | advmod |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 got | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 taking | punct |
| 10 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 gave | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 blow | det |
| 12 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 blow | amod |
| 13 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 blow | det:predet |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 blow | det |
| 15 | weighty | weighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 blow | amod |
| 16 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taking | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 side | det |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taking | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 head | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 head | det |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 side | nmod |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 reeled | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 reeled | nsubj |
| 25 | reeled | reel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 taking | advcl |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 reeled | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Tom | good | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | past | Tom | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | take | gerund | Tom not said here | the giant weighty blow | the side of the head | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blow=Theme on side=Destination | |||
| 4 | reel | past | Tom | again | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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