English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 52
And as it broke out of it welled a big, big wave that grew, and that grew, till it reached the giant's waist and then his neck, and when it got to his head, he was drowned dead, and dead, and dead indeed.
Who acts: sight, big big wave, that · What happens: break out, well, grow, reach, get, drown · To what, where: big big wave, waist, giant
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 (sight, big big wave, that), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 broke | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 broke | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 broke | nsubj |
| 4 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 welled | mark |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 out | fixed |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 welled | nsubj |
| 8 | welled | well | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 broke | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wave | det |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wave | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 big | punct |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wave | amod |
| 13 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 welled | obj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 grew | nsubj |
| 15 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wave | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 grew | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 grew | cc |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 grew | nsubj |
| 19 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 broke | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 reached | punct |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 reached | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 reached | nsubj |
| 23 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 grew | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 giant | det |
| 25 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 waist | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 giant | case |
| 27 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reached | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 neck | cc |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 neck | advmod |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 neck | nmod:poss |
| 31 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 waist | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 drowned | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 drowned | cc |
| 34 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 got | advmod |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 got | nsubj |
| 36 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 drowned | advcl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 head | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 head | nmod:poss |
| 39 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 got | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 got | punct |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 drowned | aux:pass |
| 43 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 broke | conj |
| 44 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 drowned | xcomp |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 dead | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 dead | cc |
| 47 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 broke | advcl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 dead | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 dead | cc |
| 50 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 broke | conj |
| 51 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 broke | advmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break out | past | sight | indeed property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | well | past | sight | a big big wave | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | a big big wave | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | grow | past | that | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | reach | past | sight | the giant's waist and giant's neck | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent waist=Theme | ||||
| 6 | get | past | sight | to giant's head result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to head=Result | ||||
| 7 | drown | past · passive | giant | dead property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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