The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 47
The giant, after dragging the heavy weight for some time, could get on no further, and shouted out: “Hi!
What happens: drag, get, shout out · To what, where: heavy weight, further
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: 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 | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 get | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dragging | punct |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 dragging | mark |
| 5 | dragging | drag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 giant | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 weight | det |
| 7 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 weight | amod |
| 8 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dragging | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dragging | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 further | case |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 further | det |
| 17 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 get | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shouted | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 shouted | cc |
| 20 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 shouted | compound:prt |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 Hi | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Hi | punct |
| 24 | Hi | hi | INTJ | _ | 14 get | discourse |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag | gerund | the heavy weight | time | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | could | no further | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on further=Source | |||||
| 3 | shout out speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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: «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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