English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 58

And he went on towards the lights of the castle, and on the way he came to the cottage of the hen-wife whose boy had had his brains dashed out by the giant.

Who acts: giant, boy · What happens: go on, come, have, dash out, light · To what, where: way, brains, castle

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, boy), 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	_	3 went	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	towards	towards	ADP	_	7 lights	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lights	det
7	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 castle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 castle	det
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lights	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 way	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 cottage	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cottage	det
20	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 wife	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wife	det
23	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wife	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 hen	punct
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cottage	nmod
26	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	27 boy	nmod:poss
27	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 had	aux
29	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 wife	acl:relcl
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 brains	nmod:poss
31	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 had	obj
32	dashed	dash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 brains	acl
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 dashed	compound:prt
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 giant	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 giant	det
36	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dashed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go on	past	giant			towards the lights of the castle	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	giant		the way	to the cottage of the hen wife	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cottage=Initial_Location
3	have	past · perfect	boy	giant's brains			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient
4	dash out	participle		giant's brains not said here		by the giant	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by giant=Trajectory
5	light			the castle			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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