More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 126
The giant in his pain turned at once on his companion, and blamed him in strong words for hitting him.
Who acts: giant, Johnny · What happens: turn, blame, hit, pain · To what, where: companion, Johnny, strong words
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 (giant, Johnny), 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 giant | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 pain | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pain | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | nsubj |
| 6 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 turned | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 companion | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 companion | nmod:poss |
| 11 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 blamed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 blamed | cc |
| 14 | blamed | blame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turned | parataxis |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 blamed | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 words | case |
| 17 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 words | amod |
| 18 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 blamed | obl |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 hitting | mark |
| 20 | hitting | hit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 blamed | advcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hitting | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the giant | Johnny's companion | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme at once=Source on companion=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | blame | past | Johnny | strong words | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hit | gerund | Johnny | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme | |||||
| 4 | pain | Johnny | nom pain «state transitive»: 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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