The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 49
The giant looked at them kindly, for he was not at all hard- hearted, but said that he had no power to do anything, and that if the princess did not go with him quietly the dragon would come himself.
Who acts: giant, prince, power, princess, dragon · What happens: look, not be, say, have, do, not go · To what, where: power, anything, prince · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (giant, prince, power, princess), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 giant | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hearted | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 hearted | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hearted | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hearted | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 hearted | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 hearted | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 hearted | nsubj |
| 14 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hearted | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 hard | punct |
| 16 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 had | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | ccomp |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 power | det |
| 24 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 had | xcomp |
| 27 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 26 do | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 go | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 go | cc |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 go | mark |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 go | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 princess | det |
| 33 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 go | nsubj |
| 34 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 go | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 go | advmod |
| 36 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 him | case |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 go | obl |
| 39 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 43 come | advmod |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 dragon | det |
| 41 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 come | nsubj |
| 42 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 come | aux |
| 43 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 go | advcl |
| 44 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 43 come | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the giant | at words = word; kindly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | prince | hearted property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the giant not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have | past | prince | no power | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | no power not said here | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | not go a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | the princess | with prince | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | come | would | the dragon | prince | quietly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme |
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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