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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 9

Now, as Sigurd happened to look behind him he saw the giant coming after him with great strides, and in all haste he threw the twig behind him.

Who acts: Sigurd · What happens: happen, look, see, come, throw · To what, where: giant great strides, twig, haste · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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

advmodpunctmarknsubjmarkxcompcaseoblnsubjadvcldetamodcsubjcaseoblcaseamodobjpunctcccasedetoblnsubjconjdetobjcaseoblpunctrootNowADV,PUNCTasSCONJSigurdPROPNhappenedVERBtoPARTlookVERBbehindADPhimPRONhePRONsawVERBtheDETgiantADJcomingVERBafterADPhimPRONwithADPgreatADJstridesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJinADPallDEThasteNOUNhePRONthrewVERBtheDETtwigNOUNbehindADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem5 happenedadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Nowpunct
3asasSCONJ_5 happenedmark
4SigurdSigurdPROPNNumber=Sing5 happenednsubj
5happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6totoPART_7 lookmark
7looklookVERBVerbForm=Inf5 happenedxcomp
8behindbehindADP_9 himcase
9himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 lookobl
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 sawnsubj
11sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 lookadvcl
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 stridesdet
13giantgiantADJDegree=Pos19 stridesamod
14comingcomeVERBVerbForm=Ger19 stridescsubj
15afterafterADP_16 himcase
16himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 comingobl
17withwithADP_19 stridescase
18greatgreatADJDegree=Pos19 stridesamod
19stridesstrideNOUNNumber=Plur11 sawobj
20,,PUNCT_26 threwpunct
21andandCCONJ_26 threwcc
22ininADP_24 hastecase
23allallDETPronType=Tot24 hastedet
24hastehasteNOUNNumber=Sing26 threwobl
25hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 threwnsubj
26threwthrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 happenedconj
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 twigdet
28twigtwigNOUNNumber=Sing26 threwobj
29behindbehindADP_30 himcase
30himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 threwobl
31..PUNCT_5 happenedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1happenpastSigurdnowtree rules
2lookto-infinitiveSigurd not said herebehind Sigurdvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind he=Theme
3seepastSigurdthe giant great stridesvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stride=Stimulus
4comegerundafter Sigurdvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5throwpastSigurdthe twigall hastebehind fathervn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent twig=Theme in haste=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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