The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 69
How the giants had been killed seemed a little clearer now, but who had done it was as great a puzzle as before.
Who acts: sword · What happens: kill, seem, do, be · To what, where: 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 (sword), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 killed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 giants | det |
| 3 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 killed | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 killed | aux:pass |
| 6 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 seemed | advcl |
| 7 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 little | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 clearer | obl |
| 10 | clearer | clear | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 seemed | xcomp |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 clearer | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 done | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 done | cc |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 done | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 seemed | xcomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 puzzle | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 puzzle | cop |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 puzzle | case |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 puzzle | amod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 puzzle | det |
| 22 | puzzle | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 done | parataxis |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 before | case |
| 24 | before | before | ADV | _ | 22 puzzle | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · perfect · passive | the giants | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seem | past | clear property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | sword | as a great puzzle | 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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