English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 18
He had no sooner uttered this, than he tumbled into the pit, and made the very foundations of the Mount to shake.
Who acts: noise · What happens: have, utter, tumble, make, shake · To what, where: this, pit, foundations
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 sooner | det |
| 4 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 uttered | advmod |
| 5 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 this | amod |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 had | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tumbled | punct |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 tumbled | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tumbled | nsubj |
| 10 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 pit | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pit | det |
| 13 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tumbled | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 foundations | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 foundations | advmod |
| 19 | foundations | foundation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 made | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Mount | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Mount | det |
| 22 | Mount | mount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 foundations | nmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 shake | mark |
| 24 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 made | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | noise | this | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | participle | soon property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tumble | past | noise | the pit | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into pit=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | make | past | noise not said here | the foundations of the Mount | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset foundation=Product | ||||
| 5 | shake | to-infinitive | noise not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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