The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 104
And the giant heard it on the hunting hill, and lifted his head, thinking--
Who acts: giant · What happens: hear, lift, think · To what, where: chain, hunting hill, head
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 heard | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 giant | det |
| 3 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 hill | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hill | det |
| 8 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hill | compound |
| 9 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lifted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lifted | cc |
| 12 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lifted | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thinking | punct |
| 16 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 lifted | conj |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the giant | chain | the hunting hill | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | lift | past | the giant not said here | man's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | the giant not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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