More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 12
"At him, Truncheon," said the giant; "at the little wretch that I've fed these seven years, and now has blinded me."
What happens: say, feed, blind · To what, where: giant, little wretch, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 him | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Truncheon | punct |
| 5 | Truncheon | Truncheon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 him | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 him | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 him | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 giant | det |
| 10 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 wretch | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 wretch | punct |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 wretch | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wretch | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wretch | amod |
| 16 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 fed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 fed | nsubj |
| 19 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 fed | aux |
| 20 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 wretch | acl:relcl |
| 21 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 years | det |
| 22 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 years | nummod |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fed | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 blinded | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 blinded | cc |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 blinded | advmod |
| 27 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 blinded | aux |
| 28 | blinded | blind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 fed | parataxis |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 blinded | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 fed | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 wretch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the giant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic | |||||
| 2 | feed in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the little wretch | year | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | blind in a quote | present · perfect | me | now | 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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