English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 29

They had to do it; and when he came to the big stone, the giant said: “What time of day is that?”

Who acts: king, giant, time · What happens: have, do, come, say, be · To what, where: temper, big stone, that · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king, giant, time), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 do	mark
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 came	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 stone	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stone	det
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stone	amod
14	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 giant	det
17	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 that	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 that	punct
21	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	22 time	det
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 that	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 day	case
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 time	nmod
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 that	cop
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 said	nsubj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	king			tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	king not said here	temper		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	come	past	giant		the big stone	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stone=Initial_Location
4	say speech: ask	past	the giant			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present	what time of day	that		tree rules

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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