The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 65
The giantess was greatly pleased when she saw the ring, and at once challenged Sigurd to wrestle with her.
Who acts: giantess · What happens: be, see, challenge, wrestle · To what, where: ring, 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 | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | cop |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 saw | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ring | det |
| 10 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 challenged | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 challenged | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 once | case |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 challenged | obl |
| 15 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | conj |
| 16 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 challenged | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 wrestle | mark |
| 18 | wrestle | wrestle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 challenged | xcomp |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wrestle | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the giantess | greatly, pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | giantess | the ring | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | challenge | past | the giantess not said here | Sigurd | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | 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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