English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 111

Then, coming to the middle of the bridge, the giant's great weight broke it down, and he tumbled headlong into the water, where he rolled and wallowed like a whale.

Who acts: great weight, giant · What happens: come, break down, tumble, roll, wallow · To what, where: middle, bridge, water

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 (great weight, giant), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 coming	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 broke	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 middle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 middle	det
6	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coming	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 bridge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bridge	det
9	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 middle	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 coming	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 giant	det
12	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 weight	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 giant	case
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 weight	amod
15	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 broke	nsubj
16	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 broke	obj
18	down	down	ADP	_	16 broke	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tumbled	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tumbled	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tumbled	nsubj
22	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 broke	conj
23	headlong	headlong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tumbled	xcomp
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 water	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 water	det
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tumbled	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 rolled	punct
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 rolled	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 rolled	nsubj
30	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 water	acl:relcl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 wallowed	cc
32	wallowed	wallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 rolled	conj
33	like	like	ADP	_	35 whale	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 whale	det
35	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wallowed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	gerund	the giant's great weight not said here		the middle of the bridge	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to middle=Initial_Location
2	break down	past	the giant's great weight	bridge				vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	tumble	past	giant		the water		headlong property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location
4	roll	past	giant					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wallow	participle	giant not said here				like a whale	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=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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