More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 131
The injured giant fell on his companion in fury, and the two belaboured each other till they were utterly tired out.
Who acts: injured giant, two, giants · What happens: fall, belabour, be · To what, where: companion, each
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 (injured giant, two, giants), 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 | 3 giant | det |
| 2 | injured | injured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 giant | amod |
| 3 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 companion | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 companion | nmod:poss |
| 7 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 fury | case |
| 9 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 belaboured | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 belaboured | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 two | det |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 belaboured | nsubj |
| 14 | belaboured | belabour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fell | parataxis |
| 15 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 14 belaboured | obj |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 each | fixed |
| 17 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 tired | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 tired | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 tired | cop |
| 20 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 21 tired | advmod |
| 21 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 belaboured | parataxis |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 tired | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the injured giant | Johnny's companion | in fury | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on companion=Location | |||
| 2 | belabour | participle | the two | each | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | giants = giant | tired, utterly property | 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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