English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 49

The giant had to tread very cautiously to get through all this and meanwhile the young lovers ran on, and on, and on, till they were nearly out of sight.

Who acts: giant, young lovers, lovers · What happens: have, tread, get, meanwhile, run on, be · To what, where: this, sight

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, young lovers, lovers), 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	to	to	PART	_	5 tread	mark
5	tread	tread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 cautiously	advmod
7	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	_	5 tread	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tread	advcl
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 this	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 this	det:predet
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 get	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 meanwhile	cc
14	meanwhile	meanwhile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lovers	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lovers	amod
17	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ran	nsubj
18	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 meanwhile	ccomp
19	on	on	ADV	_	18 ran	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 on	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 on	cc
22	on	on	ADV	_	14 meanwhile	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 on	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 on	cc
25	on	on	ADV	_	14 meanwhile	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sight	punct
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	33 sight	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sight	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sight	cop
30	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	33 sight	advmod
31	out	out	ADP	_	33 sight	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 sight	case
33	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 meanwhile	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the giant			tree rules
2	tread	to-infinitive	the giant not said here		cautiously property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	to-infinitive	the giant not said here	this		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through this=Destination
4	meanwhile	past	the giant not said here			tree rules
5	run on	past	the young lovers			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	past	lovers = lover	sight	nearly property	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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