The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 65
Looking over one of the heaps he saw a giant wrapped in dust dragging out the very earth and hurling it in handfuls on either side of him.
Who acts: Makoma, dust · What happens: look, see, wrap, drag out, hurl · To what, where: dust, earth, handfuls
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, dust), 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 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 saw | advcl |
| 2 | over | over | ADP | _ | 3 one | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Looking | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 heaps | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heaps | det |
| 6 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 giant | det |
| 10 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 saw | xcomp |
| 11 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 giant | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 dust | case |
| 13 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wrapped | obl |
| 14 | dragging | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 dust | acl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 dragging | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 earth | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 earth | advmod |
| 18 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dragging | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hurling | cc |
| 20 | hurling | hurl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 dragging | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hurling | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 handfuls | case |
| 23 | handfuls | handful | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hurling | obl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 side | case |
| 25 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 side | det |
| 26 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 handfuls | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 side | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | Makoma not said here | over one of the heaps | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Makoma | giant property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | wrap | participle | dust | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in dust=Destination | |||||
| 4 | drag out | gerund | dust not said here | the earth | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hurl | gerund | dust not said here | earth | handfuls on either side of Makoma | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in handful=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 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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