The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 34

Hour by hour they fought, and mountains rolled beneath their feet like pebbles in a flood; now Makoma would break away, and summoning up his strength, strike the giant with Nu-endo his iron hammer, and Sakatirina would pluck up the mountains and hurl them upon the hero, but neither one could slay the other.

Who acts: Hour, mountains, Makoma, Sakatirina, one · What happens: fight, roll, break away, summon up, strike, pluck up · To what, where: flood, strength, giant, mountains, hero, other

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 (Hour, mountains, Makoma, Sakatirina), 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	Hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fought	nsubj
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 hour	case
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hour	nmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fought	nsubj
5	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rolled	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rolled	cc
8	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rolled	nsubj
9	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fought	conj
10	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	12 feet	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 feet	nmod:poss
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rolled	obl
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 pebbles	case
14	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 feet	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 flood	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 flood	det
17	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rolled	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 break	punct
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 break	advmod
20	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 break	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 break	aux
22	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fought	conj
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 break	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 summoning	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 summoning	cc
26	summoning	summon	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 fought	advcl
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 summoning	compound:prt
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 strength	nmod:poss
29	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 summoning	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 strike	punct
31	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 summoning	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 giant	det
33	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 strike	obj
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	31 strike	obl
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 hammer	nmod:poss
39	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 hammer	compound
40	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 strike	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 pluck	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 pluck	cc
43	Sakatirina	Sakatirina	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 pluck	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 pluck	aux
45	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fought	conj
46	up	up	ADP	_	45 pluck	compound:prt
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 mountains	det
48	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 pluck	obj
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 hurl	cc
50	hurl	hurl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 pluck	conj
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 hurl	obj
52	upon	upon	ADP	_	54 hero	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 hero	det
54	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 hurl	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 slay	punct
56	but	but	CCONJ	_	60 slay	cc
57	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	58 one	det
58	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 slay	nsubj
59	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 slay	aux
60	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 pluck	conj
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 other	det
62	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 slay	obj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	Hour by hour					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	roll	past	mountains		a flood		beneath strength's feet like pebbles	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme beneath foot=Source in flood=Trajectory
3	break away	would	Makoma			now	away property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	summon up	gerund	Hour by hour not said here	Makoma's strength				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Recipient
5	strike	infinitive	Hour by hour not said here	the giant			with Nu endo	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent giant=Patient hammer=Result with endo=Instrument
6	pluck up	would	Sakatirina	the mountains				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient
7	hurl	infinitive	Sakatirina not said here	strength	the hero			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme upon hero=Destination
8	slay	could	neither one	the other				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=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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