More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 115

After travelling a long way, he came to a country that was much troubled by two giants, whom no one was bold enough to meet, and strong enough to overcome.

Who acts: resolution, two giants, one · What happens: travel, come, trouble, be, meet, overcome · To what, where: long way, country

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (resolution, two giants, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg14241:640): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 travelling	mark
2	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 came	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 travelling	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 travelling	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 country	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 country	det
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 troubled	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 troubled	aux:pass
14	much	much	ADV	_	15 troubled	advmod
15	troubled	trouble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 country	acl:relcl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 giants	case
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 giants	nummod
18	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 troubled	obl:agent
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bold	punct
20	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 meet	obj
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bold	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 bold	cop
24	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 giants	acl:relcl
25	enough	enough	ADV	_	24 bold	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 meet	mark
27	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 bold	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 strong	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 strong	cc
30	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bold	conj
31	enough	enough	ADV	_	30 strong	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 overcome	mark
33	overcome	overcome	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 strong	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	travel	gerund	resolution not said here	a long way			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	resolution		a country		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location
3	trouble	past · passive	two giants	a country			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
4	is	past	no one			bold, enough property	tree rules
5	meet	to-infinitive	no one not said here				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-Agent
6	be		no one not said here			enough property	tree rules
7	overcome	to-infinitive	no one not said here				vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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