English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 32

Whereupon, saying, “Odds splutters hur nails, hur can do that trick hurself,” the monster took the knife, and ripping open his belly, fell down dead.

Who acts: monster, Odds, that · What happens: say, splutter, trick, take, rip, fall down · To what, where: nails, hurself, knife, open belly · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (monster, Odds, that), 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	Whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saying	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 took	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 splutters	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 splutters	punct
6	Odds	odd	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 splutters	nsubj
7	splutters	splutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 trick	advcl
8	hur	hur	X	Foreign=Yes	9 nails	nmod
9	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 splutters	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
11	hur	hur	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 do	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 trick	aux
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 trick	nsubj
15	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saying	ccomp
16	hurself	hurself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 trick	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 monster	det
20	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	nsubj
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 knife	det
23	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fell	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fell	cc
26	ripping	rip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 fell	advcl
27	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 belly	amod
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 belly	nmod:poss
29	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ripping	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ripping	punct
31	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
32	down	down	ADV	_	31 fell	advmod
33	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fell	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	the monster not said here		whereupon property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	splutter in a quote	present	Odds	nails hur		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Topic
3	trick in a quote	infinitive · do-support	that	hurself		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurself=Patient
4	take	past	the monster	the knife		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
5	rip	gerund		hur's open belly		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belly=Patient
6	fall down	past	the monster not said here		dead, down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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