English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 21
The Giant was very angry, and dashed the boy's head on the stone and killed him.
Who acts: Giant · What happens: be, dash, kill · To what, where: head, boy
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Giant | det |
| 2 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dashed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dashed | cc |
| 8 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 boy | case |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dashed | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 stone | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stone | det |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dashed | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 killed | cc |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dashed | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 killed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Giant | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dash | past | the boy's head | on the stone | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Instrument on stone=Patient | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | boy | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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