English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 6

Everybody at his approach ran out of their houses, while he seized on their cattle, making nothing of carrying half-a-dozen oxen on his back at a time; and as for their sheep and hogs, he would tie them round his waist like a bunch of tallow-dips.

Who acts: Everybody, Mount · What happens: run, seize, make, carry, tie, approach · To what, where: houses, nothing, half, back

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 (Everybody, 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	Everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 ran	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 approach	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 approach	nmod:poss
4	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Everybody	nmod
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 houses	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 houses	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 houses	nmod:poss
9	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ran	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seized	punct
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 seized	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seized	nsubj
13	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 cattle	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 cattle	nmod:poss
16	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seized	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 making	punct
18	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 seized	advcl
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 making	obj
20	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 carrying	mark
21	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 nothing	acl
22	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	21 carrying	obj
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 oxen	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 oxen	det
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 dozen	punct
26	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 oxen	nummod
27	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 half	conj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 back	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 back	nmod:poss
30	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carrying	obl
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 time	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 time	det
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carrying	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 tie	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 tie	cc
36	as	as	ADV	_	45 tie	advmod
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 sheep	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 sheep	nmod:poss
39	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 as	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 hogs	cc
41	hogs	hog	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 sheep	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 as	punct
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 tie	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 tie	aux
45	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ran	conj
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 tie	obj
47	round	round	ADP	_	49 waist	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 waist	nmod:poss
49	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 tie	obl
50	like	like	ADP	_	52 bunch	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 bunch	det
52	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 tie	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	56 dips	case
54	tallow	tallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 dips	compound
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 tallow	punct
56	dips	dip	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 bunch	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	Everybody		feet's houses			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out house=Trajectory
2	seize	past	Mount				on feet's cattle	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	make	gerund	Mount not said here	nothing				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nothing=Product
4	carry	gerund		half and a dozen oxen	Mount's back	time		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme
5	tie	would	Mount	half			round Mount's waist; like a bunch of tallow dips	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	approach		Mount					nom approach «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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