The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 61
He struck him so hard a blow that the giant shrank into quite a little man, who fell upon his knees saying: 'You are indeed greater than I, O Makoma; take me with you to be your slave!'
Who acts: Makoma, giant, little man, knees, You · What happens: strike, shrink, fall, say, be, take · To what, where: Greater, blow, me, slave · 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, giant, little man, knees), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 struck | nsubj |
| 2 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 struck | obj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 hard | advmod |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 struck | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 blow | det |
| 7 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 struck | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 shrank | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 giant | det |
| 10 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shrank | nsubj |
| 11 | shrank | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 blow | acl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 13 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 man | det:predet |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shrank | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fell | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 fell | nsubj |
| 19 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 man | acl:relcl |
| 20 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 23 saying | mark |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 knees | nmod:poss |
| 22 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 saying | nsubj |
| 23 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 fell | advcl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 greater | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 greater | punct |
| 26 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 greater | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 greater | cop |
| 28 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 29 greater | advmod |
| 29 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 saying | ccomp |
| 30 | than | than | ADP | _ | 34 Makoma | case |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 Makoma | nsubj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Makoma | punct |
| 33 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Makoma | compound |
| 34 | Makoma | Makoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 greater | obl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 take | punct |
| 36 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 struck | parataxis |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 take | obj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 you | case |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 take | obl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 slave | mark |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 slave | cop |
| 42 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 slave | nmod:poss |
| 43 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 take | advcl |
| 44 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 36 take | punct |
| 45 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | Makoma | Greater = great | hard property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent he=Patient blow=Result | |||
| 2 | shrink | past | the giant | a blow not said here | into quite little man result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent blow=Patient into man=Result | |||
| 3 | fall | past | quite little man | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | Makoma's knees | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | You | than O Makoma; great, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | take | infinitive | me | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 7 | is a | to-infinitive | your slave | tree rules |
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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