English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 4
He was eighteen feet in height, and about three yards round the waist, of a fierce and grim countenance, the terror of all the neighbouring towns and villages.
Who acts: Mount · What happens: be · To what, where: eighteen feet, height
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 (Mount), 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 | 4 feet | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 feet | cop |
| 3 | eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 feet | nummod |
| 4 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 height | case |
| 6 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feet | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 yards | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 yards | cc |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 three | advmod |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 yards | nummod |
| 11 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 feet | parataxis |
| 12 | round | round | ADP | _ | 14 waist | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 waist | det |
| 14 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 yards | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 countenance | punct |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 countenance | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 countenance | det |
| 18 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 countenance | amod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 grim | cc |
| 20 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fierce | conj |
| 21 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 yards | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 terror | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 terror | det |
| 24 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 countenance | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 towns | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 towns | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 towns | det |
| 28 | neighbouring | neighbouring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 towns | compound |
| 29 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 terror | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 villages | cc |
| 31 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 towns | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mount | eighteen feet | height | 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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