English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 27

Then the giant was right wild and dashed his brains out on the stone.

Who acts: giant · What happens: be, dash out · To what, where: brains

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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 wild	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wild	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wild	cop
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wild	amod
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dashed	cc
8	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wild	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brains	nmod:poss
10	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dashed	obj
11	out	out	ADV	_	8 dashed	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 stone	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stone	det
14	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dashed	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wild	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the giant				then	wild property	tree rules
2	dash out	past	the giant not said here	giant's brains				on the stone; out property	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent brain=Instrument on stone=Patient

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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