Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 57
The giant was pleased with the good cheer, and ate and drank to his heart’s content.
Who acts: giant · What happens: be, eat, drink
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant), 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 | 4 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | cop |
| 4 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 cheer | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cheer | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cheer | amod |
| 8 | cheer | cheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pleased | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ate | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ate | cc |
| 11 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 drank | cc |
| 13 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ate | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 content | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heart | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 content | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 heart | case |
| 18 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drank | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the giant | with the good cheer; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | the giant not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drink | past | the giant not said here | to man's heart's content | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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