English Fairy Tales, XXII. Molly Whuppie., sentence 8

The latter part wanders off into “rob giant of three things,” a familiar incident in folk-tales (Cosquin, i. 46-7), and finally winds up with the “out of sack” trick, for which see Cosquin, i. 113; ii.

Who acts: latter part · What happens: wander off, rob, wind up, see · To what, where: ii, giant, Cosquin

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXII. 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 (latter part), 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	3 part	det
2	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 part	amod
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanders	nsubj
4	wanders	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 wanders	compound:prt
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 rob	case
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 rob	punct
8	rob	rob	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanders	advcl
9	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rob	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 things	case
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 things	nummod
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 giant	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rob	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 rob	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 incident	det
16	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 incident	amod
17	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rob	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 tales	case
19	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tales	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 folk	punct
21	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 incident	nmod
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 Cosquin	punct
23	Cosquin	Cosquin	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 tales	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 i.	punct
25	i.	i.	X	Foreign=Yes	23 Cosquin	flat:foreign
26	46-7	46-7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 i.	appos
27	)	)	PUNCT	_	26 46-7	punct
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 winds	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 winds	cc
30	finally	finally	ADV	_	31 winds	advmod
31	winds	wind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wanders	conj
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 winds	compound:prt
33	with	with	ADP	_	40 trick	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 trick	det
35	“	"	PUNCT	_	38 sack	punct
36	out	out	ADP	_	38 sack	case
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 sack	case
38	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 trick	compound
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	38 sack	punct
40	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 winds	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 see	punct
42	for	for	SCONJ	_	44 see	mark
43	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 see	nsubj
44	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 winds	conj
45	Cosquin	Cosquin	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 see	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 i.	punct
47	i.	i.	X	Foreign=Yes	44 see	obj
48	113	113	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	47 i.	flat
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 ii	punct
50	ii	II	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	4 wanders	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wanders	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wander off	present	the latter part	ii		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rob in a quote	infinitive	the latter part not said here	giant of three things		tree rules
3	wind up	present	the latter part not said here		with the sack trick; finally property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	see	present		Cosquin		tree rules

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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