English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 2

He was brisk and of a ready lively wit, so that nobody or nothing could worst him.

Who acts: Arthur, nobody · What happens: be, worst · To what, where: Arthur

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 (Arthur, nobody), 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	3 brisk	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brisk	cop
3	brisk	brisk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wit	cc
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 wit	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wit	det
7	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wit	amod
8	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wit	amod
9	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brisk	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 worst	punct
11	so	so	SCONJ	_	17 worst	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 worst	mark
13	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 worst	nsubj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 nothing	cc
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 nobody	conj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 worst	aux
17	worst	worst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 brisk	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 worst	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brisk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Arthur					brisk property	tree rules
2	worst	could	nobody	Arthur					tree rules

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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