The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 81

So terrible was the stroke that Chi-gwisa- miti shrivelled up as the other giants had done; and when he had got back his breath he begged Makoma to take him as his servant. '

Who acts: stroke, terrible stroke · What happens: be, shrivell up, do, get back, beg, take · To what, where: terrible stroke, gwisa miti, other giants, breath, Makoma

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 (stroke, terrible stroke), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 terrible	advmod
2	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stroke	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stroke	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stroke	det
5	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 begged	nsubj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 miti	mark
7	Chi	Chi	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 gwisa	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Chi	punct
9	gwisa	gwisa	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 miti	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 gwisa	punct
11	miti	miti	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stroke	acl:relcl
12	shrivelled	shrivell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 miti	acl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 shrivelled	compound:prt
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 done	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 giants	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 giants	amod
17	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 done	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 done	aux
19	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 shrivelled	advcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 got	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 got	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 got	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 got	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 got	aux
25	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 begged	parataxis
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 got	advmod
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 breath	nmod:poss
28	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 got	obj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 begged	nsubj
30	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 begged	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 take	mark
33	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 begged	xcomp
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 take	obj
35	as	as	ADP	_	37 servant	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 servant	nmod:poss
37	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 take	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 begged	punct
39	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the terrible stroke			tree rules
2	shrivell up	participle		gwisa miti not said here			tree rules
3	do	past · perfect · passive		the other giants			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	get back	past · perfect	stroke	stroke's breath			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer breath=Stimulus
5	beg speech: request	past	the terrible stroke		Makoma		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent makoma=Recipient clause=Topic
6	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	the terrible stroke not said here	Makoma		as Makoma's servant	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Theme as servant=Attribute

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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