The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 1

When he had climbed back to his former position, he took good aim, and waited till one of the giants was just in the act of putting a large piece of meat into his mouth.

Who acts: he, one, act · What happens: climb back, take, wait, be, put · To what, where: former position, good aim, act, large piece, mouth

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, one, act), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 climbed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 climbed	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 climbed	aux
4	climbed	climb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 climbed	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 position	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 position	nmod:poss
8	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 position	amod
9	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climbed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 climbed	parataxis
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 aim	amod
14	aim	aim	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 waited	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 waited	cc
17	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
18	till	till	ADP	_	19 one	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 act	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 giants	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 giants	det
22	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 one	nmod
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 act	cop
24	just	just	ADV	_	27 act	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 act	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 act	det
27	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 waited	ccomp
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 putting	mark
29	putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 act	acl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 piece	det
31	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 piece	amod
32	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 putting	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 meat	case
34	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 piece	nmod
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 mouth	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 mouth	nmod:poss
37	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 putting	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	climb back	past · perfect	he		his former position	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to position=Destination
2	take	past	he	good aim		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Theme
3	wait	past	he not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	one of the giants		the act	tree rules
5	put	gerund	the act not said here	a large piece of meat	his mouth	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent piece=Goal

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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