English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 22
So he went back in a tower of a temper and this time they gave him the gardener's boy.
Who acts: giant, eggs · What happens: go back, give · To what, where: tower, boy, giant
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, eggs), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 tower | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tower | det |
| 7 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 temper | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 temper | det |
| 10 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tower | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | iobj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gardener | det |
| 18 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 boy | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 gardener | case |
| 20 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | giant | a tower of a temper | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | past | eggs = egg | the gardener's boy | giant | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient boy=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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