The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 6

But the river giant was so slimy that the blow slid harmlessly off his green chest, and as Makoma stumbled and tried to regain his balance, the giant swung one of his long hairs around him and tripped him up.

Who acts: river giant, blow, Makoma, giant · What happens: be, slide, stumble, try, regain, swing · To what, where: green chest, balance, one, Makoma

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 (river giant, blow, Makoma, giant), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 slimy	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 giant	compound
4	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slimy	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 slimy	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 slimy	advmod
7	slimy	slimy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 slid	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 blow	det
10	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slid	nsubj
11	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 slimy	advcl
12	harmlessly	harmlessly	ADV	_	11 slid	advmod
13	off	off	ADP	_	16 chest	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 chest	nmod:poss
15	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 chest	amod
16	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slid	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 swung	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 swung	cc
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 stumbled	mark
20	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 stumbled	nsubj
21	stumbled	stumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 swung	advcl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tried	cc
23	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 stumbled	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 regain	mark
25	regain	regain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 tried	xcomp
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 balance	nmod:poss
27	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 regain	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 swung	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 giant	det
30	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 swung	nsubj
31	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 slimy	parataxis
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 swung	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 hairs	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 hairs	nmod:poss
35	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 hairs	amod
36	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 one	nmod
37	around	around	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 hairs	nmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 tripped	cc
40	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 swung	conj
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 tripped	obj
42	up	up	ADP	_	40 tripped	compound:prt
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 slimy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the river giant			slimy property	tree rules
2	slide	past	the blow		giant's green chest	harmlessly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off chest=Trajectory
3	stumble	past	Makoma				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	try	past	Makoma not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	regain not said to happen	to-infinitive	Makoma not said here	Makoma's balance			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balance=Theme
6	swing	past	the giant	one of Makoma's long hairs around Makoma			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Theme
7	trip up	past	the giant not said here	Makoma			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent
8	balance		Makoma				nom balance «state intransitive»: poss=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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