The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 37

'To-morrow the giant will return from the hunting hill, and I must marry him,' she sobbed.

Who acts: giant, I, daughter · What happens: return, marry, sob · To what, where: hunting hill, giant

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 (giant, I, daughter), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 return	punct
2	To	to	ADP	_	4 morrow	case
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 To	punct
4	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 return	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 return	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 return	aux
8	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 hill	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hill	det
11	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hill	compound
12	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 return	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 marry	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 marry	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 marry	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 marry	aux
17	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 return	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 marry	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sobbed	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 sobbed	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sobbed	nsubj
22	sobbed	sob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 marry	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 return	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	future	the giant		the hunting hill	to morrow result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient to morrow=Result from hill=Initial_State
2	marry	must	I	giant			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	sob	past	daughter				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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