English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 31
The giant came home, and ate up a great supper, and went to bed.
Who acts: giant · What happens: come, eat up, go · To what, where: great supper, bed
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: 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 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ate | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ate | cc |
| 7 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 ate | compound:prt |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 supper | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 supper | amod |
| 11 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ate | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 bed | case |
| 16 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the giant | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat up | past | the giant not said here | a great supper | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the giant not said here | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location |
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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