More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 88

The ground that the giant kept by force for himself, Tom gave part to the poor for their common land, and part he turned into good wheat-land to keep himself and his old mother, Jane Hickathrift.

Who acts: ground, part · What happens: keep, give, turn · To what, where: giant, part, poor, good wheat land, Tom

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 (ground, part), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ground	det
2	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	nsubj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 giant	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
5	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ground	appos
6	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 giant	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 force	case
8	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 kept	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ground	punct
12	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 gave	nsubj
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 poor	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 poor	det
17	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gave	obl
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 land	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 land	nmod:poss
20	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 land	amod
21	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 poor	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 turned	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 turned	cc
24	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turned	nsubj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 turned	nsubj
26	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gave	conj
27	into	into	ADP	_	31 land	case
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 land	amod
29	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 land	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 wheat	punct
31	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turned	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 keep	mark
33	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 turned	advcl
34	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 keep	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 mother	cc
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 mother	nmod:poss
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 mother	amod
38	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 himself	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Jane	punct
40	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 mother	appos
41	Hickathrift	Hickathrift	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Jane	flat
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	participle		the giant not said here			by force; for Tom	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by force=Location
2	give	past	the ground	part	the poor			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent part=Theme to poor=Recipient
3	turn	past	part			good wheat land		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into land=Trajectory
4	keep	to-infinitive	part not said here	Tom				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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