The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 97
“I didn’t throw anything,” growled the first one.
Who acts: second giant · What happens: not throw, growl · To what, where: anything, first one · 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 (second 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 throw | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 throw | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 throw | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 throw | advmod |
| 5 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 growled | ccomp |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 throw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 throw | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 throw | punct |
| 9 | growled | growl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 one | amod |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 growled | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 growled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not throw in a quote | past · do-support | the second giant = giant | anything | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | ||||
| 2 | growl | past | the first one | tree rules |
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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