The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 59
Then he looked up and saw another giantess, even bigger and uglier than the first one, who called out to him: “Ah, this is just what I wanted!
Who acts: Sigurd, first one, this, giantess · What happens: look up, see, call out, be, want · To what, where: giantess, Sigurd · 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 (Sigurd, first one, this, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 looked | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 saw | cc |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 giantess | det |
| 8 | giantess | giantess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bigger | punct |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 bigger | advmod |
| 11 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 giantess | acl:relcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 uglier | cc |
| 13 | uglier | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 bigger | conj |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 one | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 one | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 one | amod |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 uglier | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 called | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 called | nsubj |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 one | acl:relcl |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 called | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 called | obl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 what | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 what | punct |
| 26 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 31 what | discourse |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Ah | punct |
| 28 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 what | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 what | cop |
| 30 | just | just | ADV | _ | 31 what | advmod |
| 31 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 wanted | nsubj |
| 33 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 what | acl:relcl |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | Sigurd | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Sigurd not said here | another giantess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giantess=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | past | the first one | Sigurd | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | want in a quote | past | giantess | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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