The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 66

They struggled for a long time, till at last Sigurd grew faint; so she handed him a horn to drink from, and when he had drunk he became so strong that he threw her down with one hand.

Who acts: rings, giantess, Sigurd · What happens: struggle, grow, hand, drink, become, throw down · To what, where: last Sigurd, horn, Sigurd, giantess

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 (rings, giantess, Sigurd), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 struggled	nsubj
2	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 time	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struggled	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grew	punct
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 grew	mark
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 Sigurd	case
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Sigurd	amod
11	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 grew	obl
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 struggled	conj
13	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grew	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 handed	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 handed	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 handed	nsubj
17	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 struggled	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 handed	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 horn	det
20	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 handed	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 drink	mark
22	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 horn	acl
23	from	from	ADP	_	22 drink	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 drunk	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 drunk	cc
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 drunk	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 drunk	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 drunk	aux
29	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 handed	conj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 became	nsubj
31	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 drunk	ccomp
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 strong	advmod
33	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 became	xcomp
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 threw	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 threw	nsubj
36	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 strong	advcl
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 threw	obj
38	down	down	ADP	_	36 threw	compound:prt
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 hand	case
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 hand	nummod
41	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 threw	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 struggled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	struggle	past	rings = ring				time		vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow	past	rings = ring not said here			last Sigurd		faint property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sigurd=Location
3	hand	past	giantess	a horn	Sigurd				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination horn=Theme
4	drink	to-infinitive	giantess not said here	a horn not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	drink	past · perfect	Sigurd						tree rules
6	become	past	Sigurd					strong property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	throw down	past	Sigurd	giantess				with one hand	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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