The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 101

He gave, however, as good as he got, and they became so enraged that they tore up trees and beat each other with them, till they both fell dead at once on the ground.

Who acts: thing, horsemen · What happens: give, get, become, enrage, tore up, beat · To what, where: good, trees, each, ground

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, horsemen), 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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 good	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	7 good	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 good	advmod
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gave	obl
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 got	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 good	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 became	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 became	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 became	nsubj
14	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 enraged	advmod
16	enraged	enrage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 became	advcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 tore	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tore	nsubj
19	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 enraged	ccomp
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 tore	compound:prt
21	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tore	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 beat	cc
23	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 tore	conj
24	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	23 beat	obj
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 each	fixed
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 beat	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fell	punct
29	till	till	SCONJ	_	32 fell	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fell	nsubj
31	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	32 fell	nsubj
32	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 beat	conj
33	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fell	xcomp
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 once	case
35	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 fell	obl
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 ground	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 ground	det
38	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fell	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	thing	good			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	get	past	thing				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	become	past	horsemen = horseman				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	enrage	past	horsemen = horseman not said here				tree rules
5	tore up	past	horsemen = horseman	trees			tree rules
6	beat	present	horsemen = horseman not said here	each		with horsemen = horseman	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent each=Patient with they=Instrument
7	fall	past	horsemen = horseman		the ground	dead property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location

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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