The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 17

For some time he lay quite still, and then suddenly the floor began to shake, and a giantess came along wading half way to her knees through the ground.

Who acts: Ingiborg, floor, giantess · What happens: lie, begin, shake, come along, wade · To what, where: ground

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ingiborg, floor, giantess), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lay	nsubj
5	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 still	advmod
7	still	still	ADV	_	5 lay	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 began	advmod
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	14 began	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 floor	det
13	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 shake	mark
16	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 giantess	det
20	giantess	giantess	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	conj
22	along	along	ADV	_	21 came	advmod
23	wading	wade	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 came	advcl
24	half	halfway	ADV	Typo=Yes	23 wading	advmod
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 half	goeswith
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 knees	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 knees	nmod:poss
28	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wading	obl
29	through	through	ADP	_	31 ground	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ground	det
31	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wading	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Ingiborg		still; time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	the floor		then	suddenly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	shake	to-infinitive	the floor not said here				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	come along	past	a giantess			along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wade	gerund	a giantess not said here	the ground		to giantess's knees; halfway property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to knee=Destination

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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