English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 6

But a giant came up to him, and said “I'll carry you over.”

Who acts: giant · What happens: come up, say, carry over · To what, where: boy, you · 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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 came	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 carry	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 carry	nsubj
13	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 carry	aux
14	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 carry	obj
16	over	over	ADP	_	14 carry	compound:prt
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 carry	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 carry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	come up	past	a giant		boy	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	a giant not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	carry over in a quote	future	a giant = giant	you		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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