English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 15
This noise roused the giant, who rushed from his cave, crying: “You incorrigible villain, are you come here to disturb my rest?
Who acts: noise, You · What happens: rouse, rush, cry, villain, be, disturb · To what, where: giant, cave, rest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, You), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 noise | det |
| 2 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roused | nsubj |
| 3 | roused | rouse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 giant | det |
| 5 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 roused | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rushed | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 rushed | nsubj |
| 8 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 roused | parataxis |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 cave | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cave | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rushed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crying | punct |
| 13 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 rushed | advcl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 villain | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 villain | punct |
| 16 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 villain | nsubj |
| 17 | incorrigible | incorrigible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 villain | amod |
| 18 | villain | villain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roused | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | cop |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 come | nsubj |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 roused | conj |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 come | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 disturb | mark |
| 25 | disturb | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 come | advcl |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 rest | nmod:poss |
| 27 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 disturb | obj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 roused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rouse | past | this noise | the giant | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Patient | ||||
| 2 | rush | past | Jack's cave | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from cave=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | villain in a quote | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | you | here | come property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | disturb in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | my rest | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus rest=Experiencer |
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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