More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 83

Tom showed them the head, and what silver and gold there was in the cave, and not a man but leapt for joy, for the giant was a great enemy to all the country.

Who acts: Tom, giant · What happens: show, be · To what, where: giants

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, giant), 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	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 showed	nsubj
2	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 showed	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 head	det
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 showed	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 what	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 showed	parataxis
9	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 was	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gold	cc
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 silver	conj
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 what	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 cave	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cave	det
16	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 was	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 man	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 man	cc
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 man	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 showed	obl
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 leapt	cc
23	leapt	leapt	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 man	conj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 joy	case
25	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 man	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 enemy	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	33 enemy	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 giant	det
29	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 enemy	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 enemy	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 enemy	det
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 enemy	amod
33	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 showed	parataxis
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 country	case
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 country	det:predet
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 country	det
37	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 enemy	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	past	Tom	giants = giant				the head obl:unmarked; a man for joy but leapt obl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	is	past	the giant					for a great enemy; to all country	tree rules

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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