English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 22
And in the middle of the night up rose the giant, armed with a great club, and felt for the necks with the straw.
What happens: rise, feel · To what, where: giant, middle
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Molly Whuppie. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rose | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 middle | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 middle | det |
| 4 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rose | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 middle | nmod |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 9 rose | advmod |
| 9 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 giant | det |
| 11 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rose | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 armed | punct |
| 13 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rose | advcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 club | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 club | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 club | amod |
| 17 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 armed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 felt | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 felt | cc |
| 20 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rose | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 necks | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 necks | det |
| 23 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 felt | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 straw | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 straw | det |
| 26 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 felt | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the giant | the middle of the night | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location giant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | for the necks; with the straw | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for neck=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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