The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 55
The giantess was delighted, and challenged him to wrestle with her.
Who acts: giantess · What happens: be, challenge, wrestle · To what, where: Sigurd
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), 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 giantess | det |
| 2 | giantess | giantess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 challenged | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 challenged | cc |
| 7 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 challenged | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 wrestle | mark |
| 10 | wrestle | wrestle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 challenged | xcomp |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wrestle | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the giantess | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | challenge | past | the giantess not said here | Sigurd | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wrestle | to-infinitive | the giantess not said here | with giantess | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with she=Co-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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