The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 16
But here the other giant drew him aside, and for a moment or two they whispered together.
Who acts: giants · What happens: draw, whisper · To what, where: Martin
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giants), 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 | _ | 6 drew | cc |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 giant | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 giant | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 giant | amod |
| 5 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 drew | xcomp |
| 6 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 drew | obj |
| 8 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 6 drew | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 whispered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 whispered | cc |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 moment | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 moment | det |
| 13 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 whispered | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 two | cc |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 moment | conj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 whispered | nsubj |
| 17 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drew | conj |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 whispered | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Martin | aside, giant property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | giants = giant | moment | together property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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