The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 15

After the giant was dead Sigurd rode on towards his own home, and on the way he suddenly met his stepmother’s little dog, running to meet him, with tears pouring down its face.

Who acts: giant, tears · What happens: be, meet, run, pour down · To what, where: dead Sigurd rode, own home, little dog, way, giant, face

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, tears), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 giant	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rode	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rode	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rode	amod
6	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rode	compound
7	rode	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	12 home	case
9	towards	towards	ADP	_	12 home	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 home	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 home	amod
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rode	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 met	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 met	cc
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 way	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 met	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 met	nsubj
19	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	20 met	advmod
20	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rode	parataxis
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 stepmother	nmod:poss
22	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dog	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 stepmother	case
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 dog	amod
25	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 met	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 running	punct
27	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 met	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 meet	mark
29	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 running	xcomp
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 meet	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tears	punct
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 tears	case
33	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 meet	obl
34	pouring	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 tears	acl
35	down	down	ADP	_	37 face	case
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 face	nmod:poss
37	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pouring	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		dead Sigurd rode	giant's own home	after the giant		tree rules
2	meet	past	giant	giant's stepmother's little dog	the way		suddenly property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Co-Agent
3	run	gerund	giant not said here					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	meet	to-infinitive	giant not said here	giant			with tears	vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme with tear=Instrument
5	pour down	gerund	tears not said here	dog's face				vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient

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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