The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 33

And lo! instead of death, Makoma had found life, for he sprang to his feet mightier in strength and stature than before, and rushing in he gripped the giant by the waist and wrestled with him.

Who acts: Makoma · What happens: find, spring, rush, grip, wrestle · To what, where: Makoma, giant

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), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 lo	cc
2	lo	lo	INTJ	_	10 found	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 lo	punct
4	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	6 death	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	4 instead	fixed
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lo	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lo	punct
8	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 found	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 found	aux
10	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sprang	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 sprang	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sprang	nsubj
15	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 found	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 feet	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 feet	nmod:poss
18	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 mightier	obl
19	mightier	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 sprang	xcomp
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 strength	case
21	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mightier	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stature	cc
23	stature	stature	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 strength	conj
24	than	than	ADP	_	25 before	case
25	before	before	ADV	_	19 mightier	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rushing	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 rushing	cc
28	rushing	rush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 found	parataxis
29	in	in	SCONJ	_	31 gripped	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 gripped	nsubj
31	gripped	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 rushing	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 giant	det
33	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 gripped	obj
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 waist	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 waist	det
36	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 giant	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 wrestled	cc
38	wrestled	wrestle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 gripped	conj
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 wrestled	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past · perfect · passive		Makoma		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme life=Attribute
2	spring	past	Makoma		mighty property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rush	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	grip	past	Makoma	the giant		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Experiencer
5	wrestle	past	Makoma not said here		with Makoma	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent

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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