The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 17

Backwards and forwards they swayed, and first one was uppermost and then the other; but at length Ian worked his leg round the giant's and threw him to the ground.

Who acts: arms, first one · What happens: sway, be, work, throw · To what, where: leg, length, giant, ground

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 (arms, first one), 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	Backwards	backwards	ADV	_	5 swayed	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 swayed	cc
3	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	5 swayed	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 swayed	nsubj
5	swayed	sway	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 uppermost	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 uppermost	cc
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 uppermost	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 uppermost	cop
11	uppermost	uppermost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 swayed	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 other	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 other	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 other	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 uppermost	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 worked	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 worked	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 length	case
19	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 worked	obl
20	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 length	appos
21	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swayed	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 leg	nmod:poss
23	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 worked	obj
24	round	round	ADP	_	26 giant	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 giant	det
26	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 worked	obl
27	's	's	PART	_	26 giant	case
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 threw	cc
29	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 worked	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 threw	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 ground	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ground	det
33	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 threw	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 swayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sway	past	arms = arm				backwards, forwards property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	first one				uppermost property	tree rules
3	be		first one not said here			then		tree rules
4	work	past	arms = arm not said here	Ian's leg	length		round the giant	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent leg=Material
5	throw	past	arms = arm not said here	giant	the ground			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme to ground=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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