The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 11
This giant was even more furious than the first had been, and words were just coming to blows, when the third giant again interposed.
Who acts: giant, first, words · What happens: be, come, interpose · To what, where: blows
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 (giant, first, words), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 giant | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 furious | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 furious | cop |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 furious | advmod |
| 6 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 been | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 first | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 been | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 been | aux |
| 11 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 furious | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 coming | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 coming | cc |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 coming | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 coming | aux |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 coming | advmod |
| 17 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 furious | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 blows | case |
| 19 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 coming | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 giant | punct |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 24 giant | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 giant | det |
| 23 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 giant | amod |
| 24 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 furious | conj |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 interposed | advmod |
| 26 | interposed | interpose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 giant | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 furious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this giant | furious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past · perfect | the first | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past · progressive | words | blows | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to blow=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | be | this giant not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | interpose speech: other | participle | this giant not said here | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: «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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