English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 36

The giant's daughter said she would help him, and she cried all the beasts in the field, and all the fowls of the air, and in a minute they all came, and carried away everything that was in the stable and made it all clean before the giant came home.

Who acts: daughter, fowls, stable, giant · What happens: say, help, cry, come, carry away, be · To what, where: giant, beasts, field, fowls, everything, stable · 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 (daughter, fowls, stable, 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	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 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 help	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 help	aux
8	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 help	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cried	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cried	nsubj
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 beasts	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 beasts	det
16	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cried	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 field	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 field	det
19	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cried	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 made	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 made	cc
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 fowls	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fowls	det
24	fowls	fowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 made	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 air	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 air	det
27	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fowls	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 came	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 came	cc
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 minute	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 minute	det
32	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 came	obl
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 came	nsubj
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 they	det
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fowls	acl:relcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 carried	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 carried	cc
38	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 came	conj
39	away	away	ADV	_	38 carried	advmod
40	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	38 carried	obj
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 stable	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 stable	cop
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 stable	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 stable	det
45	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 everything	acl:relcl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 carried	cc
47	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cried	conj
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 made	obj
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	50 clean	advmod
50	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 made	xcomp
51	before	before	SCONJ	_	54 came	mark
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 giant	det
53	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 came	nsubj
54	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 clean	ccomp
55	home	home	ADV	_	54 came	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the giant's daughter						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	help	would	daughter		giant				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
3	cry speech: express	past	daughter	all beasts		the field			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Topic
4	come	past	fowls = fowl	all fowls of the air not said here			minute		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fowl=Theme
5	carry away	past	fowls = fowl not said here	everything				away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
6	is	past				the stable			tree rules
7	make	past	all fowls of the air	stable					tree rules
8	clean	present	stable not said here						tree rules
9	come	past	the giant					home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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