The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 60
It appears from the story that giants were not given fair play!
Who acts: It · What happens: appear, not give · To what, where: story, giants
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 (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 appears | nsubj |
| 2 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 story | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 appears | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 given | obj |
| 7 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 given | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 given | aux:pass |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 given | advmod |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 story | acl:relcl |
| 11 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 play | amod |
| 12 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 given | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | It | the story | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not give | past · passive | giants | tree rules |
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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