More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 24

He got on his legs, and walked quietly by all those giants, lions, fiery serpents, and all manner of other frightful things too numerous to mention, while they were fast asleep, and that only for the space of one hour, when into the castle he goes neck or nothing.

Who acts: boy, swans, space · What happens: get, walk, mention, be, go · To what, where: legs, neck, castle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, swans, space), 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	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 legs	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 legs	nmod:poss
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 walked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 walked	cc
8	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
9	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	8 walked	advmod
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 giants	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 giants	det:predet
12	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 giants	det
13	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 walked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lions	punct
15	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 giants	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 serpents	punct
17	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 serpents	amod
18	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 giants	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 numerous	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 numerous	cc
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 manner	det
22	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 numerous	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 things	case
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 things	amod
25	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 things	amod
26	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 manner	nmod
27	too	too	ADV	_	28 numerous	advmod
28	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 mention	mark
30	mention	mention	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 numerous	csubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 asleep	punct
32	while	while	SCONJ	_	36 asleep	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 asleep	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 asleep	cop
35	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 asleep	advmod
36	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 mention	ccomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 goes	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 goes	cc
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 goes	mark
40	only	only	ADV	_	43 space	advmod
41	for	for	ADP	_	43 space	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 space	det
43	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 goes	nsubj
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 hour	case
45	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 hour	nummod
46	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 space	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 goes	punct
48	when	when	SCONJ	_	53 goes	mark
49	into	into	ADP	_	51 castle	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 castle	det
51	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 goes	obl
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 goes	nsubj
53	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
54	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 goes	obj
55	or	or	CCONJ	_	56 nothing	cc
56	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	54 neck	conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	boy		boy's legs		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on leg=Source
2	walk	past	boy not said here			by all giants and lions; quietly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by giant=Trajectory
3	mention speech: other	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	swans = swan			asleep, fast property	tree rules
5	go	present	the space of one hour	neck	the castle		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location neck=Theme

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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