More English Fairy Tales, LII. Tom Hickathrift, sentence 5

But I have in one case altered the sequence of events putting the fight with the giant last."

Who acts: I, one case, events · What happens: have, alter, put · To what, where: sequence, fight

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LII. Tom Hickathrift. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one case, events), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 have	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	SCONJ	_	7 altered	mark
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 case	nummod
6	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 altered	nsubj
7	altered	alter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 have	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sequence	det
9	sequence	sequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 altered	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 events	case
11	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sequence	nmod
12	putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 events	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fight	det
14	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 putting	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 last	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 last	det
17	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 last	amod
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 putting	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I			tree rules
2	alter	past	one case	the sequence of events		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sequence=Patient
3	put	gerund	events not said here	the fight	with the giant last	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fight=Goal

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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