The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 90
And he scratched his huge head for several minutes, for giants' minds always move slowly.
Who acts: giant, minds, giants · What happens: scratch, move, mind · To what, where: huge 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 (giant, minds, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 scratched | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 scratched | nsubj |
| 3 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 head | amod |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scratched | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 minutes | case |
| 8 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 minutes | amod |
| 9 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 scratched | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 move | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 move | case |
| 12 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 minds | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 12 giants | case |
| 14 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 move | nsubj |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 move | advmod |
| 16 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 scratched | conj |
| 17 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 16 move | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scratched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch | past | giant | giant's huge head | minute | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 2 | move | present | giants's minds | always, slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mind | giants | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/25/90/