The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 2

Down came the Giant with a terrible crash, and as he fell on his head, he broke his neck, and lay dead at the feet of the woman he had so much injured.

Who acts: Giant, Jack, woman · What happens: come, fall, break, lay, injure · To what, where: head, neck, feet, Jack

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 (Giant, Jack, woman), 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	Down	down	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Giant	det
4	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 crash	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 crash	det
7	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crash	amod
8	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Giant	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 broke	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 broke	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 fell	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fell	nsubj
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 broke	advcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 head	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 broke	nsubj
19	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 neck	nmod:poss
21	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 broke	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lay	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lay	cc
24	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	advcl
25	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lay	xcomp
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 feet	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 feet	det
28	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 lay	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 woman	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 woman	det
31	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 feet	nmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 injured	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 injured	aux
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 much	advmod
35	much	much	ADV	_	36 injured	advmod
36	injured	injure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 woman	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Giant			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past	Jack		Jack's head		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=Location
3	break	past	Jack	Jack's neck			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient
4	lay	infinitive	the Giant not said here		the feet of the woman	dead property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at foot=Destination
5	injure	past · perfect · passive	the woman not said here	Jack			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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