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The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 93

The giant felt nothing for a long time, but at last he woke up, and pinching his companion said: “What did you strike me for?”

Who acts: giant, tailor, pinching, you · What happens: feel, wake up, pinch, say, strike · To what, where: nothing, last, companion, pinching · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (giant, tailor, pinching, you), 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

detnsubjobjcasedetamodoblpunctcccaseoblnsubjparataxiscompound:prtpunctcccsubjnmod:possobjconjpunctpunctobjauxnsubjccompobjoblpunctpunctrootTheDETgiantADJfeltVERBnothingPRONforADPaDETlongADJtimeNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJatADPlastNOUNhePRONwokeVERBupADP,PUNCTandCCONJpinchingVERBhisPRONcompanionNOUNsaidVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTWhatPRONdidAUXyouPRONstrikeVERBmePRONforADP?PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 giantdet
2giantgiantADJDegree=Pos3 feltnsubj
3feltfeelVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4nothingnothingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Neg3 feltobj
5forforADP_8 timecase
6aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art8 timedet
7longlongADJDegree=Pos8 timeamod
8timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing3 feltobl
9,,PUNCT_14 wokepunct
10butbutCCONJ_14 wokecc
11atatADP_12 lastcase
12lastlastNOUNNumber=Sing14 wokeobl
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 wokensubj
14wokewakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 feltparataxis
15upupADP_14 wokecompound:prt
16,,PUNCT_21 saidpunct
17andandCCONJ_21 saidcc
18pinchingpinchVERBVerbForm=Ger21 saidcsubj
19hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 companionnmod:poss
20companioncompanionNOUNNumber=Sing18 pinchingobj
21saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 wokeconj
22::PUNCT_27 strikepunct
23“"PUNCT_27 strikepunct
24WhatwhatPRONPronType=Int27 strikeobj
25diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 strikeaux
26youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs27 strikensubj
27strikestrikeVERBVerbForm=Inf21 saidccomp
28meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs27 strikeobj
29forforADP_27 strikeobl
30??PUNCT_27 strikepunct
31”"PUNCT_27 strikepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1feelpastthe giantnothingtimevn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
2wake uppasttailorlastvn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3pinchgerundtailor's companionvn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Theme
4say speech: askpastpinchingvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5strike in a quotepast · do-supportyoupinchingvn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent what=Patient i=Result

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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