The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 76

He was astonished at their size, for every one was full grown and larger than any trees he had ever seen, and close by he saw Chi-gwisa-miti, the giant who was planting the forest.

Who acts: size, Chi, gwisa miti · What happens: be, grow, see, miti, plant · To what, where: size, one, trees, forest · 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 (size, Chi, gwisa miti), 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	3 astonished	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 astonished	cop
3	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 size	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 size	nmod:poss
6	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 astonished	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grown	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	13 grown	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grown	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 grown	aux:pass
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 grown	amod
13	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 astonished	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 larger	cc
15	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 grown	conj
16	than	than	ADP	_	18 trees	case
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 trees	det
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 larger	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 seen	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 seen	aux
21	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 seen	advmod
22	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 trees	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 close	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 close	cc
25	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 astonished	conj
26	by	by	SCONJ	_	28 saw	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 saw	nsubj
28	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 close	advcl
29	Chi	Chi	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 miti	nsubj
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 Chi	punct
31	gwisa	gwisa	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 miti	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 miti	punct
33	miti	miti	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 saw	ccomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 giant	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 giant	det
36	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 miti	amod
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 planting	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 planting	aux
39	planting	plant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 miti	acl:relcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 forest	det
41	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 planting	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	size		ways's size		astonished property	tree rules
2	grow	past · passive		every one				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	see	past · perfect	size	any trees not said here		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
4	be		size not said here					tree rules
5	see	past	size					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	miti		Chi					tree rules
7	plant	past · progressive	gwisa miti	the forest				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=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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