The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 34

Niels had to believe him, and allowed the giant to throw him up.

Who acts: Niels · What happens: have, believe, allow, throw up · To what, where: Niels

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), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 believe	mark
4	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 believe	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 allowed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 allowed	cc
8	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 giant	det
10	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 allowed	xcomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 throw	mark
12	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 giant	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 throw	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 throw	compound:prt
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Niels			tree rules
2	believe	to-infinitive	Niels not said here	Niels		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	allow	past	Niels not said here		giant property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
4	throw up	to-infinitive	Niels not said here	Niels		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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