More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 145

There once lived a giant at this mill who had only one eye in the middle of his forehead, and he ground men's bones to make his bread.

Who acts: mill · What happens: live, have, make · To what, where: giant, mill, one eye, middle, bread

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mill), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 lived	expl
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 lived	advmod
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 giant	det
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lived	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 mill	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 mill	det
8	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mill	acl:relcl
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 one	advmod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 eye	nummod
13	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 middle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 middle	det
16	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 forehead	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 forehead	nmod:poss
19	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 middle	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bones	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bones	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 men	nsubj
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 men	compound
24	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bones	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 men	case
26	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lived	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 make	mark
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lived	advcl
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 bread	nmod:poss
30	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 make	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a giant	this mill; there	ground men's bones obl; once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme giant=Location
2	have	past	this mill	one eye	the middle of story's forehead		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
3	make	to-infinitive		story's bread			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bread=Product

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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