English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 49
The giant roared out at this like thunder: “Who's there?”
Who acts: giant · What happens: roar out, be · To what, where: this · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 giant | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roared | nsubj |
| 3 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 roared | compound:prt |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 roared | obl |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 thunder | case |
| 8 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roared | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 there | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 there | punct |
| 11 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 there | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 there | cop |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 roared | parataxis |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 there | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar out | past | the giant | this | like thunder | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | there property | 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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