The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 48

They rushed instantly to the hall, where the giant was awaiting them, and flinging themselves at his feet implored him to take the kingdom if he would, but to have pity on the princess.

Who acts: words, giant · What happens: rush, await, fling, implore, take, have · To what, where: words, prince, feet, kingdom, pity

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rushed	nsubj
2	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	2 rushed	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 hall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hall	det
6	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rushed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 awaiting	punct
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 awaiting	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 giant	det
10	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 awaiting	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 awaiting	aux
12	awaiting	await	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 rushed	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 awaiting	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flinging	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 flinging	cc
16	flinging	fling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 awaiting	conj
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 flinging	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 feet	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 feet	nmod:poss
20	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 implored	obl
21	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 flinging	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 implored	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 take	mark
24	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 implored	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 kingdom	det
26	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	obj
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 would	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 would	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 take	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 have	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 have	cc
32	to	to	PART	_	33 have	mark
33	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 rushed	conj
34	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 have	obj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 princess	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 princess	det
37	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 have	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rush	past	words = word			to the hall result; instantly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hall=Result
2	await	past · progressive	the giant	words = word			tree rules
3	fling	gerund	the giant not said here	words = word			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
4	implore	past	the giant not said here	prince	prince's feet		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	take	to-infinitive	the giant not said here	the kingdom			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme
6	have	to-infinitive	words = word not said here	pity		on the princess	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=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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