The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 67

On the third morning Sigurd once more laid down his ball, and it rolled far away, till at last it stopped under a very high rock indeed, over the top of which the most hideous giantess that ever was seen looked down.

Who acts: Sigurd, ball, hideous giantess · What happens: lay down, roll, stop, see, look down · To what, where: ball, last, hideous 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 (Sigurd, ball, hideous 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laid	obl
5	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 laid	nsubj
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 laid	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 laid	advmod
8	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 laid	compound:prt
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ball	nmod:poss
11	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laid	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rolled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 rolled	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rolled	nsubj
15	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 laid	parataxis
16	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 away	advmod
17	away	away	ADV	_	15 rolled	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stopped	punct
19	till	till	SCONJ	_	23 stopped	mark
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 last	case
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 stopped	obl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stopped	nsubj
23	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 rolled	conj
24	under	under	ADP	_	28 rock	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 rock	det
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 high	advmod
27	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 rock	amod
28	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stopped	obl
29	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	23 stopped	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 top	punct
31	over	over	ADP	_	33 top	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 top	det
33	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stopped	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	39 giantess	case
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 giantess	nsubj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 giantess	det
37	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	38 hideous	advmod
38	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 giantess	amod
39	giantess	giantess	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 top	nmod
40	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 seen	nsubj
41	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	43 seen	advmod
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 seen	aux:pass
43	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 giantess	acl:relcl
44	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 seen	xcomp
45	down	down	ADP	_	44 looked	compound:prt
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	participle	Sigurd	Sigurd's ball		morning	once property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Result
2	roll	past	ball				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stop	past	ball		last		under a high rock; over the top of the hideous giantess; indeed property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
4	see	past · passive		the hideous giantess		ever		tree rules
5	look down	participle	the hideous giantess not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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