The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 57

To push the body aside as it fell was quite easy for Niels, so strong had the wine made him, and the second giant as he entered met the same reception.

Who acts: strong, body, wine, Niels · What happens: push, fall, be, have, make, enter · To what, where: body, Niels, same reception

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 (strong, body, wine, 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	To	to	PART	_	2 push	mark
2	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 had	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 body	det
4	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 push	obj
5	aside	aside	ADV	_	2 push	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 fell	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 push	advcl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 easy	cop
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 easy	advmod
11	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fell	xcomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 Niels	case
13	Niels	Niels	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 easy	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 strong	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 strong	advmod
16	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wine	det
19	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 made	nsubj
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 had	ccomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 made	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 giant	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 giant	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 second	det
25	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 giant	amod
26	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 had	parataxis
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 entered	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 entered	nsubj
29	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 giant	advcl
30	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 entered	ccomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 reception	det
32	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 reception	amod
33	reception	reception	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 met	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	push	to-infinitive	strong not said here	the body	aside property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme
2	fall	past	body			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	body not said here		for Niels; easy property	tree rules
4	have	past	strong			tree rules
5	make	past	the wine	Niels		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product
6	enter	past	Niels			tree rules
7	meet	past	Niels not said here	the same reception		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reception=Co-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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