The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 16
And rising to his feet, he threw his arms round the giant.
Who acts: youth · What happens: rise, throw · To what, where: feet, arms
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 (youth), 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 | _ | 8 threw | cc |
| 2 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 threw | advcl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 feet | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 feet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rising | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 rising | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 threw | nsubj |
| 8 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 arms | nmod:poss |
| 10 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 threw | obj |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 13 giant | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 giant | det |
| 13 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | gerund | youth not said here | youth's feet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | youth | youth's arms | round the giant | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
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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