English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 23

He went off with him on his back till they got to the stone again when the giant sat down to rest.

Who acts: giant, eggs · What happens: go off, get, sit down, rest · To what, where: 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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 went	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 back	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 back	nmod:poss
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 got	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 stone	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stone	det
14	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	obl
15	again	again	ADV	_	11 got	advmod
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 sat	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 giant	det
18	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sat	nsubj
19	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 sat	compound:prt
21	to	to	PART	_	22 rest	mark
22	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sat	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past	giant	giant's back		with boy	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on back=Location
2	get	past	eggs = egg		again	to the stone result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to stone=Result
3	sit down	past	the giant				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rest	to-infinitive	the giant not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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