The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 46

But, one morning, when I was walking in my gardens, there came a giant and snatched the crown from my head.

Who acts: I · What happens: walk, come, snatch · To what, where: gardens, giant, crown, head

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	15 came	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 morning	nummod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 walking	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 walking	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 walking	aux
9	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 morning	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 gardens	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 gardens	nmod:poss
12	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 walking	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 came	expl
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 giant	det
17	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 came	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 snatched	cc
19	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 crown	det
21	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 snatched	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 head	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 snatched	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	I		my gardens		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory
2	come	past		a giant	there	morning	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location giant=Theme
3	snatch	past		the crown	my head		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent crown=Theme from head=Source

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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