More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 137

He never told the mode he followed in his dealing with the giants.

Who acts: Johnny · What happens: not tell, follow, deal · To what, where: mode, dealing · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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 told	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 told	advmod
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mode	det
5	mode	mode	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 followed	nsubj
7	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 dealing	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dealing	nmod:poss
10	dealing	dealing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 followed	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 giants	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 giants	det
13	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 followed	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	past	Johnny	the mode			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mode=Recipient clause=Topic
2	follow	past	Johnny		Johnny's dealing	with the giants	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in dealing=Location
3	deal		Johnny				nom dealing «act intransitive»: 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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