English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 55
Home came the giant, and a great big tree in his hand, and he took down the sack, and began to batter it.
Who acts: Home · What happens: come, take down, begin, batter · To what, where: giant, sack
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 (Home), 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 | Home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 giant | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 came | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tree | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tree | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tree | amod |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tree | amod |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 took | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sack | det |
| 20 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 began | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 began | cc |
| 23 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 batter | mark |
| 25 | batter | batter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 began | xcomp |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 batter | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Home | the giant | a great big tree in Home's hand obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location giant=Theme | |||
| 2 | take down | past | Home | the sack | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | Home not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | batter | to-infinitive | Home not said here | sack | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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