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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 75

This time the fight was fierce and long, but when at length Sigurd’s strength was failing the giantess gave him something to drink, and after he had drunk it he soon brought her to her knees.

Who acts: time, length, giantess, Sigurd · What happens: be, fail, give, drink, bring · To what, where: something, Sigurd, strength, giantess, knees

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 (time, length, 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

detnsubjdetnsubjcopccconjpunctccadvmodcasensubjnmod:posscaseobjauxadvcldetnsubjconjiobjobjmarkaclpunctccmarknsubjauxconjobjnsubjadvmodparataxisobjcasenmod:possoblpunctrootThisDETtimeNOUNtheDETfightNOUNwasAUXfierceADJandCCONJlongADJ,PUNCTbutCCONJwhenADVatADPlengthNOUNSigurdPROPN’sPARTstrengthNOUNwasAUXfailingVERBtheDETgiantessNOUNgaveVERBhimPRONsomethingPRONtoPARTdrinkVERB,PUNCTandCCONJafterSCONJhePRONhadAUXdrunkVERBitPRONhePRONsoonADVbroughtVERBherPRONtoADPherPRONkneesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem2 timedet
2timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing6 fiercensubj
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 fightdet
4fightfightNOUNNumber=Sing6 fiercensubj
5wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 fiercecop
6fiercefierceADJDegree=Posrootroot
7andandCCONJ_8 longcc
8longlongADJDegree=Pos6 fierceconj
9,,PUNCT_21 gavepunct
10butbutCCONJ_21 gavecc
11whenwhenADVPronType=Int18 failingadvmod
12atatADP_13 lengthcase
13lengthlengthNOUNNumber=Sing18 failingnsubj
14SigurdSigurdPROPNNumber=Sing16 strengthnmod:poss
15’s'sPART_14 Sigurdcase
16strengthstrengthNOUNNumber=Sing13 lengthobj
17wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 failingaux
18failingfailVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part21 gaveadvcl
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 giantessdet
20giantessgiantessNOUNNumber=Sing21 gavensubj
21gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 fierceconj
22himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 gaveiobj
23somethingsomethingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind21 gaveobj
24totoPART_25 drinkmark
25drinkdrinkVERBVerbForm=Inf23 somethingacl
26,,PUNCT_31 drunkpunct
27andandCCONJ_31 drunkcc
28afterafterSCONJ_31 drunkmark
29hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 drunknsubj
30hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin31 drunkaux
31drunkdrinkVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part21 gaveconj
32ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 drunkobj
33hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 broughtnsubj
34soonsoonADVDegree=Pos35 broughtadvmod
35broughtbringVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 gaveparataxis
36hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 broughtobj
37totoADP_39 kneescase
38herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs39 kneesnmod:poss
39kneeskneeNOUNNumber=Plur35 broughtobl
40..PUNCT_6 fiercepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastthis timefierce propertytree rules
2bethis time not said heretree rules
3failpast · progressivelengthvn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4givepastthe giantesssomethingSigurdvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient something=Theme
5drinkto-infinitivethe giantess not said heresomething not said herevn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6drinkpast · perfectSigurdstrengthvn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7bringpastSigurdgiantessgiantess's kneessoon propertyvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to knee=Destination

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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