More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 9
The giant had a favourite dog, which had also been sleeping when his master was blinded.
Who acts: giant, favourite dog · What happens: have, sleep, blind · To what, where: favourite dog, master
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, favourite dog), 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 | 2 giant | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 5 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dog | amod |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sleeping | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 sleeping | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sleeping | aux |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 sleeping | advmod |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 sleeping | aux |
| 12 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 dog | conj |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 blinded | mark |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 master | nmod:poss |
| 15 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 blinded | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 blinded | aux:pass |
| 17 | blinded | blind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sleeping | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the giant | a favourite dog | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sleep | past · perfect · progressive | a favourite dog | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | blind | past · passive | giant's master | 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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