The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 143

They were so huge that the spoons they used were as large as spades, and their forks as big as hay-forks: with these they lifted whole bucketfuls of broth and great joints of meat out of an enormous pot which was set on the ground between them.

Who acts: Giants, spoons, forks · What happens: be, use, lift, set · To what, where: spoons, whole bucketfuls, enormous pot, ground

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giants, spoons, forks), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 huge	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 huge	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 huge	advmod
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 large	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spoons	det
7	spoons	spoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 large	nsubj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 used	nsubj
9	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spoons	acl:relcl
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 large	cop
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 large	advmod
12	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 huge	advcl
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 spades	case
14	spades	spade	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 large	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 big	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 big	cc
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 forks	nmod:poss
18	forks	fork	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 big	nsubj
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 big	advmod
20	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 huge	conj
21	as	as	ADP	_	24 forks	case
22	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 forks	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 hay	punct
24	forks	fork	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 big	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 lifted	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 these	case
27	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 lifted	obl
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 lifted	nsubj
29	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 huge	conj
30	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bucketfuls	amod
31	bucketfuls	bucketful	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 lifted	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 broth	case
33	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bucketfuls	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 joints	cc
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 joints	amod
36	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 bucketfuls	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 meat	case
38	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 joints	nmod
39	out	out	ADP	_	43 pot	case
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 pot	case
41	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 pot	det
42	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 pot	amod
43	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lifted	obl
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 set	nsubj:pass
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 set	aux:pass
46	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 pot	acl:relcl
47	on	on	ADP	_	49 ground	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 ground	det
49	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 set	obl
50	between	between	ADP	_	51 them	case
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 ground	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 huge	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Giants = giant			huge property	tree rules
2	use	past	Giants = giant	the spoons not said here			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=Patient
3	is	past	the spoons			as spades; large property	tree rules
4	be		Giants's forks			as hay forks	tree rules
5	lift	past	Giants = giant	whole bucketfuls of broth and great joints of meat	a enormous pot	with these	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bucketful=Theme out pot=Destination
6	set	past · passive		a enormous pot	the ground between Giants		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on ground=Destination

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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