The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 18

The men gave a loud cheer at these words, and pressed forward to say that they would serve Jack as faithfully as they had served his father.

Who acts: men · What happens: give, press forward, say, serve · To what, where: loud cheer, words, Jack, men · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Giant Breaks His Neck.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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 men	det
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cheer	det
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cheer	amod
6	cheer	cheer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 words	case
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 words	det
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pressed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pressed	cc
12	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 gave	conj
13	forward	forward	ADV	_	12 pressed	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 say	mark
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 pressed	advcl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 serve	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 serve	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 serve	aux
19	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 say	ccomp
20	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 serve	obj
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 faithfully	advmod
22	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	19 serve	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 served	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 served	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 served	aux
26	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 faithfully	advcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 father	nmod:poss
28	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 served	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	the men	a loud cheer	this words		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent cheer=Theme at word=Asset
2	press forward	participle	the men not said here			forward property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the men not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	serve	would	men = man	Jack		faithfully property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Attribute
5	serve	past · perfect · passive		men = man			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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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