More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 6

He had been eating in the mill, and had laid down a great loaf of bone bread by his side, and the knife I told you about was in his hand, but his fingers relaxed their hold of it in sleep.

Who acts: giant, knife, fingers · What happens: eat, lay down, tell, be, relax, hold · To what, where: mill, great loaf, you, hand, hold, sleep · 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: who acts (giant, knife, fingers), 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	4 eating	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eating	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 eating	aux
4	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 mill	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mill	det
7	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eating	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 laid	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 laid	cc
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 laid	aux
11	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 eating	conj
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 laid	compound:prt
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 loaf	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 loaf	amod
15	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laid	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 bread	case
17	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bread	compound
18	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 loaf	nmod
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 side	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 side	nmod:poss
21	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laid	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 told	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 told	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 knife	det
25	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 told	nsubj
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 told	nsubj
27	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eating	parataxis
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 told	iobj
29	about	about	ADV	_	33 hand	advmod
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 hand	cop
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 hand	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 hand	nmod:poss
33	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 told	ccomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 relaxed	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 relaxed	cc
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 fingers	nmod:poss
37	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 relaxed	nsubj
38	relaxed	relax	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 told	conj
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 hold	nmod:poss
40	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 relaxed	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 hold	nmod
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 sleep	case
44	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 relaxed	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 eating	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect · progressive	giant			the mill		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lay down	past · perfect	giant not said here	a great loaf of bone bread			by giant's side	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent loaf=Theme by side=Destination
3	tell speech: assert	past	the knife		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	is	past				giant's hand	about property	tree rules
5	relax	past	giant's fingers	fingers's hold of mill		sleep		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hold=Experiencer
6	hold		fingers = finger	mill				nom hold «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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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