The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 6

Sigurd lay very still for a long while, and was just thinking it was no good staying there any more, when he felt the floor shake under him as if there were an earthquake, and peeping out he saw a great giantess wading along ankle deep through the ground and ploughing it up as she walked.

Who acts: Sigurd, bade, floor, earthquake, great giantess · What happens: lie, think, be, stay, feel, shake · To what, where: floor, great giantess, ground, bade · 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, bade, floor, earthquake), 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	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 still	advmod
4	still	still	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 while	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 while	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 while	amod
8	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thinking	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thinking	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thinking	aux
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 thinking	advmod
13	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 lay	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 good	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 good	cop
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 good	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thinking	ccomp
18	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 thinking	advcl
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 staying	advmod
20	any	any	ADV	_	21 more	advmod
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 staying	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 felt	punct
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 felt	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 felt	nsubj
25	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 floor	det
27	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 felt	obj
28	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 felt	xcomp
29	under	under	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 shake	obl
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 were	mark
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 were	mark
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 were	expl
34	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 shake	advcl
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 earthquake	det
36	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 were	nsubj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 saw	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 saw	cc
39	peeping	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 saw	csubj
40	out	out	ADP	_	39 peeping	compound:prt
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 saw	nsubj
42	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 giantess	det
44	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 giantess	amod
45	giantess	giantess	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 saw	obj
46	wading	wade	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 giantess	acl
47	along	along	ADP	_	48 ankle	case
48	ankle	ankle	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 wading	obl
49	deep	deep	ADV	_	46 wading	advmod
50	through	through	ADP	_	52 ground	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 ground	det
52	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 wading	obl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 ploughing	cc
54	ploughing	plough	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 wading	conj
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 ploughing	obj
56	up	up	ADP	_	54 ploughing	compound:prt
57	as	as	SCONJ	_	59 walked	mark
58	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 walked	nsubj
59	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 ploughing	advcl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Sigurd			still; while		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past · progressive	Sigurd not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	bade				good property	tree rules
4	stay	gerund	Sigurd not said here		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	feel	past	Sigurd	the floor				tree rules
6	shake	infinitive	the floor not said here				under Sigurd	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under he=Location
7	be	past	a earthquake		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	peep out	gerund						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	see	past	Sigurd	a great giantess				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giantess=Stimulus
10	wade	gerund	a great giantess not said here		the ground		along ankle; deep property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along ankle=Trajectory
11	plough up	gerund	a great giantess not said here	bade				vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Initial_Location
12	walk	past	earthquake					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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