The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 56
The first giant accordingly bent down and entered in a stooping posture, but before he had time to straighten his back again Niels made a sweep with the sword, and oft went the giant’s head.
Who acts: Niels, oft · What happens: bend down, enter, stoop, have, straighten, make · To what, where: first giant, stooping posture, back, sweep, head
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, oft), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 giant | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 giant | amod |
| 3 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bent | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 5 bent | advmod |
| 5 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 bent | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 entered | cc |
| 8 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bent | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 posture | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 posture | det |
| 11 | stooping | stoop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 posture | amod |
| 12 | posture | posture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 entered | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 made | cc |
| 15 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 17 had | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 made | advcl |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 straighten | mark |
| 20 | straighten | straighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 time | acl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 back | nmod:poss |
| 22 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 straighten | obj |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 straighten | advmod |
| 24 | Niels | Niels | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 made | nsubj |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bent | parataxis |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 sweep | det |
| 27 | sweep | sweep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 sword | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sword | det |
| 30 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sweep | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 went | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 went | cc |
| 33 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 went | nsubj |
| 34 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 made | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 giant | det |
| 36 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 head | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 36 giant | case |
| 38 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 went | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend down | participle · passive | the first giant | accordingly property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | a stooping posture | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stoop | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | have | past | Niels | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | straighten | to-infinitive | Niels not said here | Niels's back | again | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent back=Patient | |||
| 6 | make | past | Niels | a sweep | with the sword | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweep=Product | |||
| 7 | go | past | oft | the giant's head | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=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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