The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 114

I could not marry a frightful giant as tall as a tower, who eats up people as a monkey eats chestnuts, and who talks so loud that anybody who has to listen to him becomes quite deaf.

Who acts: I, tower, monkey, anybody · What happens: not marry, eat up, eat, talk, have, listen · To what, where: frightful giant, people, chestnuts, monkey

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, tower, monkey, anybody), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 marry	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 marry	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 marry	advmod
4	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 giant	det
6	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 giant	amod
7	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marry	obj
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 tall	advmod
9	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 giant	amod
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 tower	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tower	det
12	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tall	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eats	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 eats	nsubj
15	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tower	acl:relcl
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 eats	compound:prt
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 eats	obj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 eats	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 monkey	det
20	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eats	nsubj
21	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 eats	advcl
22	chestnuts	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 eats	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 talks	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 talks	cc
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 talks	nsubj
26	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 marry	conj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 loud	advmod
28	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 talks	xcomp
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 becomes	mark
30	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	37 becomes	nsubj
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 has	nsubj
32	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 anybody	acl:relcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 listen	mark
34	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 has	xcomp
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 listen	obl
37	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 loud	advcl
38	quite	quite	ADV	_	39 deaf	advmod
39	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 becomes	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 marry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not marry	could	I	a frightful giant			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Patient
2	eat up	present	a tower	people			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
3	eat	present	a monkey	chestnuts			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chestnut=Patient
4	talk	present				loud property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	present					tree rules
6	listen	to-infinitive			monkey		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme
7	become	present	anybody			deaf property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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