The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 80

The giant, plucking up a monster bao-bab by the roots, struck heavily at Makoma; but the hero sprang aside, and as the weapon sank deep into the soft earth, whirled Nu-endo the hammer round his head and felled the giant with one blow.

Who acts: hero, weapon · What happens: pluck up, strike, spring, sink, whirl, fell · To what, where: bao bab, roots, soft earth, Nu endo, 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, weapon), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sprang	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 plucking	punct
4	plucking	pluck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 giant	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 plucking	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bab	det
7	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bao	compound
8	bao	bao	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bab	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 bao	punct
10	bab	bab	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plucking	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 roots	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 roots	det
13	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 plucking	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 struck	punct
15	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 roots	acl
16	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	15 struck	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 Makoma	case
18	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 struck	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 sprang	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 sprang	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hero	det
22	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sprang	nsubj
23	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	aside	aside	ADV	_	23 sprang	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sank	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sank	cc
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 sank	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 weapon	det
29	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sank	nsubj
30	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sprang	advcl
31	deep	deep	ADV	_	30 sank	advmod
32	into	into	ADP	_	35 earth	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 earth	det
34	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 earth	amod
35	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sank	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 whirled	punct
37	whirled	whirl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sank	conj
38	Nu	Nu	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 endo	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 Nu	punct
40	endo	endo	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 whirled	obj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 hammer	det
42	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 whirled	obj
43	round	round	ADP	_	45 head	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 head	nmod:poss
45	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 hammer	nmod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 felled	cc
47	felled	fell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 whirled	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 giant	det
49	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 felled	obj
50	with	with	ADP	_	52 blow	case
51	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 blow	nummod
52	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 felled	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pluck up	gerund	the hero not said here	a bao bab		by the roots	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bab=Patient
2	strike	participle		the roots not said here		at Makoma; heavily property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at makoma=Patient
3	spring	past	the hero			aside property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sink	past	the weapon		the soft earth	deep property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	whirl	past	the weapon not said here	Nu endo			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent endo=Theme hammer=Result
6	fell	past	the weapon not said here	the giant		with one blow	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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