English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 87
At this, the giant roared like claps of thunder, and began to lay about him with his iron club like one stark mad.
What happens: roar, begin, lay, clap · To what, where: thunder
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 claps | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 claps | det |
| 5 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 claps | amod |
| 6 | roared | roar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 claps | amod |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 claps | case |
| 8 | claps | clap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 this | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 thunder | case |
| 10 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 claps | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 began | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 began | cc |
| 13 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 claps | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 lay | mark |
| 15 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 began | xcomp |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lay | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 club | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 club | nmod:poss |
| 20 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 club | compound |
| 21 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lay | obl |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 stark | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 stark | nummod |
| 24 | stark | stark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lay | obl |
| 25 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 stark | amod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 claps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | lay | to-infinitive | about Jack; with Jack's iron club; like one stark | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about he=Destination | |||||
| 4 | clap | thunder | nom clap «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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