The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 116

And they took hold of each other once more, and at last Ian threw the giant, and wished that the raven were there to help him.

Who acts: giants, raven · What happens: take, throw, wish, be, help · To what, where: hold, giant, last Ian, raven

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 (giants, raven), 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	_	3 took	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 each	case
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 hold	nmod
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	fixed
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 took	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 threw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 threw	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 Ian	case
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Ian	amod
14	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 threw	obl
15	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 giant	det
17	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 threw	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wished	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wished	cc
20	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 there	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 raven	det
23	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 there	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 there	cop
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 wished	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 help	mark
27	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 there	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 help	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	giants = giant	hold of each				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
2	throw	past	giants = giant not said here	the giant		last Ian		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent giant=Theme at ian=Destination
3	wish	past	giants = giant not said here					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is	past	the raven				there property	tree rules
5	help	to-infinitive	the raven not said here		raven			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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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