The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 113
So they wrestled, and twisted and strove with each other till the giant forced Ian to his knee.
Who acts: Ian · What happens: wrestle, twist, strive, force · To what, where: giant
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 (Ian), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 wrestled | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wrestled | nsubj |
| 3 | wrestled | wrestle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 twisted | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 twisted | cc |
| 6 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrestled | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 strove | cc |
| 8 | strove | strive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 twisted | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 each | case |
| 10 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 8 strove | obl |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 each | fixed |
| 12 | till | till | ADP | _ | 14 giant | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 giant | det |
| 14 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 strove | obl |
| 15 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 giant | acl |
| 16 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 forced | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 knee | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 knee | nmod:poss |
| 19 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 forced | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrestled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrestle | past | Ian | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | twist | past | Ian not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | strive | past | Ian not said here | till the giant | with each | tree rules | |||
| 4 | force | participle | the giant not said here | to leeward's knee | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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