The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 35

'"It is shut up in a castle guarded by a fierce giant, who only sleeps one quarter of an hour out of the whole twenty-four," replied the cuckoo.

Who acts: fierce giant, cuckoo · What happens: shut up, guard, sleep, reply · To what, where: difficult, castle, one quarter, whole twenty four · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fierce giant, cuckoo), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 shut	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 shut	punct
3	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shut	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shut	aux:pass
5	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 shut	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 castle	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 castle	det
9	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shut	obl
10	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 castle	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 giant	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 giant	det
13	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 giant	amod
14	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 guarded	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sleeps	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 sleeps	nsubj
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 sleeps	advmod
18	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 giant	acl:relcl
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 quarter	nummod
20	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sleeps	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 hour	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hour	det
23	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 quarter	nmod
24	out	out	ADP	_	30 four	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	30 four	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 four	det
27	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 four	amod
28	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 four	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 twenty	punct
30	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 sleeps	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 replied	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 replied	punct
33	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shut	parataxis
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cuckoo	det
35	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 replied	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shut up in a quote	present · passive		difficult	a castle		tree rules
2	guard in a quote	participle		a castle not said here		by a fierce giant	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	sleep in a quote	present	a fierce giant	one quarter of a hour	the whole twenty four		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarter=Theme
4	reply speech: assert	past	the cuckoo				vn respond-113 «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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