English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 35

The giant's daughter went out next morning with the lad's breakfast, and found him in a terrible state, for always as he cleaned out a bit, it just fell in again.

Who acts: daughter, giant, work · What happens: go out, find, clean out, fall in · To what, where: giant, terrible state, bit

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 (daughter, giant, work), 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	4 daughter	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 giant	case
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 morning	amod
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl:unmarked
9	with	with	ADP	_	13 breakfast	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lad	det
11	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 breakfast	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 lad	case
13	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 found	cc
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 found	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 state	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 state	det
20	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 state	amod
21	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 found	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cleaned	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 always	case
24	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	27 cleaned	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 cleaned	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cleaned	nsubj
27	cleaned	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 found	parataxis
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 cleaned	compound:prt
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bit	det
30	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cleaned	obl:unmarked
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fell	punct
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 fell	nsubj
33	just	just	ADV	_	34 fell	advmod
34	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 cleaned	conj
35	in	in	ADV	_	34 fell	advmod
36	again	again	ADV	_	34 fell	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	the giant's daughter			morning	with the lad's breakfast; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with breakfast=Co-Agent
2	find	past	the giant's daughter not said here	giant	a terrible state			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
3	clean out	past	giant	a bit			always property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	fall in	past	work			again		vn occur-48.3 «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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