The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 21
Niels gave in, and the giant carried him back to his comrades.
Who acts: Niels, giant · What happens: give in, carry back · To what, where: Niels, comrades
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 (Niels, giant), 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 | Niels | Niels | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 gave | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 carried | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 carried | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 giant | det |
| 7 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | nsubj |
| 8 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 carried | obj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 carried | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 comrades | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 13 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 carried | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in | past | Niels | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | carry back | past | the giant | Niels | Niels's comrades | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to comrade=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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