More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 76
So at it they went, Tom laying such huge blows at the giant, down whose face sweat and blood ran together, so that, being fat and foggy and tired with the long fighting, he asked Tom would he let him drink a little? "
Who acts: beer, Tom, face sweat, blow · What happens: go, lay, run, be, ask, let · To what, where: such huge blows, blow, little · 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 (beer, Tom, face sweat, blow), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 5 went | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 laying | punct |
| 7 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 laying | nsubj |
| 8 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 went | advcl |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 blows | amod |
| 10 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 blows | amod |
| 11 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 laying | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 giant | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 giant | det |
| 14 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 laying | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 down | punct |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 ran | advmod |
| 17 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 19 sweat | nmod:poss |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sweat | compound |
| 19 | sweat | sweat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ran | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 blood | cc |
| 21 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sweat | conj |
| 22 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 laying | advcl |
| 23 | together | together | ADV | _ | 22 ran | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fat | punct |
| 25 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 29 fat | mark |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 so | fixed |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fat | punct |
| 28 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 fat | cop |
| 29 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 went | parataxis |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 foggy | cc |
| 31 | foggy | foggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fat | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 tired | cc |
| 33 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fat | conj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 fighting | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 fighting | det |
| 36 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 fighting | amod |
| 37 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tired | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 asked | punct |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 asked | nsubj |
| 40 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 41 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 let | nsubj |
| 42 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 let | aux |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 let | nsubj |
| 44 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 asked | ccomp |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 let | obj |
| 46 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 let | xcomp |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 little | det |
| 48 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 drink | obj |
| 49 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 44 let | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | beer | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lay | gerund | Tom | such huge blows | at the giant | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blow=Theme at giant=Destination | |||
| 3 | run | past | face sweat and blood | down, together property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | gerund | fat property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 6 | be | with the long fighting | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | past | Tom | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | let | would | Tom | blow | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | drink | infinitive | blow not said here | a little | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=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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