English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 16

The next day the giant came to claim the king's promise, and he sent for the hen-wife's boy; and the giant went away with the boy on his back.

Who acts: next day, giant, king · What happens: come, claim, send, go away, promise · To what, where: promise, back

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next day, giant, king), 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	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 claim	mark
8	claim	claim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 promise	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 king	case
12	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 claim	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sent	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sent	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sent	nsubj
16	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	23 boy	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wife	det
19	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wife	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 hen	punct
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 boy	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 wife	case
23	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sent	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 went	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 went	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 giant	det
27	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	nsubj
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
29	away	away	ADV	_	28 went	advmod
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 boy	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 boy	det
32	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 back	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 back	nmod:poss
35	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the next day				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	claim speech: other	to-infinitive	the next day not said here	the king's promise			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent promise=Topic
3	send	past	giant			for the hen wife's boy	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	go away	past	the giant		giant's back	with the boy; away property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with boy=Beneficiary
5	promise		the king				nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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