The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 9

The two got so angry over the matter that each offered to fight the other there and then, but the third giant acted as peace-maker, and they again fell to their eating.

Who acts: two, third giant, giants · What happens: get, offer, fight, act, fall, eat · To what, where: matter, other

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 (two, third giant, giants), 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	2 two	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 angry	advmod
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	xcomp
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 matter	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 matter	det
8	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 angry	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 offered	nsubj:pass
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 offered	nsubj:pass
11	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 matter	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 fight	mark
13	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 offered	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 other	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fight	obj
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 fight	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 then	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 there	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 acted	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 acted	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 giant	det
22	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 giant	amod
23	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 acted	nsubj
24	acted	act	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 got	conj
25	as	as	ADP	_	28 maker	case
26	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 maker	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 peace	punct
28	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 acted	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fell	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fell	cc
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 fell	nsubj
32	again	again	ADV	_	33 fell	advmod
33	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 eating	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 eating	nmod:poss
36	eating	eating	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fell	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the two				angry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	offer	participle · passive		the matter				tree rules
3	fight not said to happen	to-infinitive		the other	there			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Co-Agent
4	act	participle	the third giant				as peace maker	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as maker=Attribute
5	fall	past	giants = giant			again	to giants's eating	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to eating=Theme
6	eat		giants = giant					nom eating «act intransitive»: poss=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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