More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 78

And seeing the giant beginning to weary and fail in his blows, Tom thought best to make hay whilst the sun shone, and, laying on as fast as though he had been mad, he brought the giant to the ground.

Who acts: Tom, sun · What happens: see, weary, fail, think, make, shine · To what, where: giant beginning, blows, hay, giant, ground

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, sun), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	15 thought	cc
2	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 thought	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beginning	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beginning	amod
5	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seeing	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 weary	mark
7	weary	weary	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seeing	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fail	cc
9	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 weary	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 blows	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 blows	nmod:poss
12	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fail	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 seeing	punct
14	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 thought	nsubj
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 thought	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 make	mark
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thought	xcomp
19	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	obj
20	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	23 shone	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sun	det
22	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shone	nsubj
23	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 make	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 laying	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 laying	cc
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 laying	punct
27	laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 thought	advcl
28	on	on	ADP	_	27 laying	compound:prt
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 fast	advmod
30	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 laying	advmod
31	as	as	ADV	_	36 mad	advmod
32	though	though	SCONJ	_	36 mad	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 mad	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 mad	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 mad	cop
36	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 laying	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 brought	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 brought	nsubj
39	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thought	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 giant	det
41	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 brought	obj
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 ground	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 ground	det
44	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 brought	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	Tom not said here	the giant beginning			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beginning=Stimulus
2	weary	to-infinitive	Tom not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	fail	infinitive	Tom not said here		Tom's blows		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in blow=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	past	Tom				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	make	to-infinitive	Tom not said here	hay			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hay=Product
6	shine	past	the sun				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	lay on	gerund	Tom not said here			fast property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	is	past · perfect	Tom			mad property	tree rules
9	bring	past	Tom	the giant	the ground		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent giant=Theme to ground=Destination
10	blow		Tom				nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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