The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 73

But the hero had his sack held over his left arm and the stones and earth fell harmlessly upon it, and, tightly gripping his iron hammer, he rushed in and struck the giant to the ground.

Who acts: hero, sack, earth · What happens: have, hold, fall, grip, rush in, strike · To what, where: left arm, sack, iron hammer, giant

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 (hero, sack, earth), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 had	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hero	det
3	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sack	nmod:poss
6	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 held	nsubj
7	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	ccomp
8	over	over	ADP	_	11 arm	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 arm	nmod:poss
10	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 arm	amod
11	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 held	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stones	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stones	det
14	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 arm	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fell	cc
16	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fell	nsubj
17	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stones	conj
18	harmlessly	harmlessly	ADV	_	17 fell	advmod
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fell	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gripping	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 gripping	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 and	punct
24	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	25 gripping	advmod
25	gripping	grip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 had	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hammer	nmod:poss
27	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hammer	compound
28	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gripping	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 rushed	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 rushed	nsubj
31	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	parataxis
32	in	in	ADV	_	31 rushed	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 struck	cc
34	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 rushed	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 giant	det
36	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 struck	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 ground	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 ground	det
39	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 struck	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the hero				tree rules
2	hold	past	hero's sack		hero's left arm and the stones		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over arm=Location
3	fall	past	earth		sack	harmlessly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon it=Location
4	grip	gerund	the hero not said here	hero's iron hammer		tightly property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme
5	rush in	past	hero				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	strike	past	hero not said here	the giant		to the ground result	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent giant=Patient to ground=Result

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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