The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 60

Makoma said nothing, but swinging his great hammer, Nu-endo, he struck the giant upon the head.

Who acts: Makoma · What happens: say, swing, strike · To what, where: nothing, great hammer, giant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Makoma), 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	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 said	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 struck	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 struck	cc
6	swinging	swing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 struck	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hammer	nmod:poss
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hammer	amod
9	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swinging	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 endo	punct
11	Nu	Nu	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 endo	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Nu	punct
13	endo	endo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hammer	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 swinging	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 struck	nsubj
16	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 giant	det
18	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 struck	obj
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 head	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 head	det
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 struck	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Makoma	nothing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	swing	gerund	Makoma not said here	Makoma's great hammer and Nu endo		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme
3	strike	past	Makoma	the giant	upon the head	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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