English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 32
The giant had a bonny daughter, and she and the lad grew very fond of each other.
Who acts: giant, mother · What happens: have, grow · To what, where: bonny daughter
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, mother), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 daughter | det |
| 5 | bonny | bonny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | compound |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 grew | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 grew | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lad | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lad | det |
| 12 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 she | conj |
| 13 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 fond | advmod |
| 15 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grew | xcomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 each | case |
| 17 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 15 fond | obl |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 each | fixed |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the giant | a bonny daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | mother | fond property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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