The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 36

Going quickly into the next room she opened a chest and took out a ball of string and three gold rings, and gave them to Sigurd, saying: “If you throw this ball on the ground it will roll along till it reaches some high cliffs.

Who acts: giantess, you, ball · What happens: go, open, take out, give, say, throw · To what, where: next room, chest, ball, rings, ground, high cliffs · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (giantess, you, ball), 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	Going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 opened	advcl
2	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Going	advmod
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 room	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 room	det
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 room	amod
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Going	obl
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 opened	nsubj
8	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 chest	det
10	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 opened	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 took	cc
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 opened	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 took	compound:prt
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 ball	det
15	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 string	case
17	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ball	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 rings	cc
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 rings	nummod
20	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rings	compound
21	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 string	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gave	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 gave	cc
24	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 opened	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 gave	iobj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 Sigurd	case
27	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 gave	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 saying	punct
29	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 gave	advcl
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	42 roll	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	42 roll	punct
32	If	if	SCONJ	_	34 throw	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 throw	nsubj
34	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 roll	advcl
35	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 ball	det
36	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 throw	obj
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 ground	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 ground	det
39	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 throw	obl
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 roll	nsubj
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 roll	aux
42	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 saying	ccomp
43	along	along	ADV	_	42 roll	advmod
44	till	till	SCONJ	_	46 reaches	mark
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 reaches	nsubj
46	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 roll	advcl
47	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	49 cliffs	det
48	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 cliffs	amod
49	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 reaches	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	gerund	giantess not said here			the next room	quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
2	open	past	giantess	a chest				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chest=Theme
3	take out	past	giantess not said here	a ball of string and three gold rings				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
4	give	past	giantess not said here		rings = ring		to Sigurd	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to sigurd=Recipient
5	say speech: assert	gerund	giantess not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	throw a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	this ball		the ground		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ball=Theme on ground=Destination
7	roll in a quote	future	ball				along property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	reach in a quote	present	ball	some high cliffs				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cliff=Theme

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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