The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 49
That same evening the ball stopped rolling at the foot of some high rocks, and on glancing up, Sigurd saw the giantess looking out at the top.
Who acts: ball, Sigurd, giantess · What happens: stop, roll, glance up, see, look out · To what, where: foot, giantess, top
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 (ball, Sigurd, 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 evening | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 evening | amod |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stopped | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ball | det |
| 5 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stopped | nsubj |
| 6 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 stopped | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 foot | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 foot | det |
| 10 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rolling | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 rocks | case |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 rocks | det |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rocks | amod |
| 14 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 foot | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 17 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 18 glancing | mark |
| 18 | glancing | glance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 saw | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 glancing | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 glancing | punct |
| 21 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stopped | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 giantess | det |
| 24 | giantess | giantess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 25 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 saw | xcomp |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 looking | compound:prt |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 top | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 top | det |
| 29 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 looking | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the ball | evening | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | roll | gerund | the ball not said here | the foot of some high rocks | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | glance up | gerund | Sigurd not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see | past | Sigurd | the giantess | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | look out | gerund | the giantess not said here | the top | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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