More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 130
He soon found it, and right against the giant's head went another pebble.
Who acts: Johnny, head · What happens: find, go · To what, where: blow, pebble
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 (Johnny, head), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 found | advmod |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 right | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 right | cc |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 found | xcomp |
| 8 | against | against | SCONJ | _ | 13 went | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 giant | det |
| 10 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 giant | case |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 right | advcl |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 pebble | det |
| 15 | pebble | pebble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Johnny | blow | right, soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | go | past | the giant's head | another pebble | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pebble=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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