The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 14
Then they seized each other by the shoulder, and the giant threw him on his two knees. '
Who acts: links, giant · What happens: seize, throw · To what, where: each, youth, two knees
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (links, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 seized | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 3 seized | obj |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 each | fixed |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 shoulder | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shoulder | det |
| 8 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 threw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 threw | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 giant | det |
| 12 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 threw | nsubj |
| 13 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 threw | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 knees | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 knees | nmod:poss |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 knees | nummod |
| 18 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 threw | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | links = link | each | then | by the shoulder | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme | ||
| 2 | throw | past | the giant | youth | youth's two knees | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme on knee=Destination |
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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