English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 44

The giant wasn't long ere he came home, and, after he had eaten a great big supper, he went to his bed, and shortly was snoring loud.

Who acts: giant, king · What happens: not be, come, eat, go, snore · To what, where: great big 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, king), 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	5 long	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 long	cop
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 came	advmod
6	ere	ere	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 and	punct
13	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 eaten	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 eaten	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 eaten	aux
16	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 went	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 supper	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 supper	amod
19	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 supper	amod
20	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eaten	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 eaten	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 bed	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 bed	nmod:poss
26	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 snoring	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 snoring	cc
29	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	31 snoring	advmod
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 snoring	aux
31	snoring	snore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 went	advcl
32	loud	loud	ADV	_	31 snoring	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the giant			ere, long property	tree rules
2	come	past	king			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	eat	past · perfect	king	a great big supper			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient
4	go	past	king		king's bed		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
5	snore	past · progressive	king not said here			loud, shortly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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