The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 20

Makoma was astonished when he beheld how tall was the giant; but, nothing daunted, he went forward until he reached one of Sakatirina's legs, which he struck heavily with Nu-endo.

Who acts: Makoma, nothing, legs · What happens: be, behold, daunt, go, reach, strike · To what, where: one

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Makoma, nothing, legs), 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	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	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	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 beheld	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 beheld	nsubj
6	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 astonished	advcl
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 tall	advmod
8	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 giant	amod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 giant	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 giant	det
11	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beheld	ccomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nothing	punct
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 went	nsubj
16	daunted	daunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 nothing	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 daunted	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 astonished	conj
20	forward	forward	ADV	_	19 went	advmod
21	until	until	SCONJ	_	23 reached	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 reached	nsubj
23	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 went	advcl
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 reached	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 legs	case
26	Sakatirina	Sakatirina	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 legs	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 Sakatirina	case
28	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 one	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 struck	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 struck	nsubj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 struck	nsubj
32	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 legs	acl:relcl
33	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	32 struck	advmod
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 endo	case
35	Nu	Nu	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 endo	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 Nu	punct
37	endo	endo	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 struck	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Makoma		astonished property	tree rules
2	behold	past	Makoma			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	Makoma not said here		giant property	tree rules
4	daunt	participle				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	go	past	nothing		forward property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	reach	past	Makoma	one of Sakatirina's legs		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent one=Theme
7	strike	past	Sakatirina's legs		with Nu endo; heavily property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with endo=Theme

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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