The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 52

And they threw their arms round each other, and the giant forced Ian on to his knees; but in a moment he was up again, and crooking his leg round the shoulders of the giant, he threw him heavily to the ground. '

Who acts: brothers, Ian · What happens: throw, force, be, crook · To what, where: arms, giant, knees, leg, 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 (brothers, Ian), 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 threw	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 arms	nmod:poss
5	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 threw	obj
6	round	round	ADV	_	3 threw	advmod
7	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	3 threw	obj
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 each	fixed
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 forced	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 forced	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 giant	det
12	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forced	nsubj:pass
13	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 threw	conj
14	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 forced	xcomp
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 knees	case
16	to	to	ADP	_	15 on	fixed
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 knees	nmod:poss
18	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 forced	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 again	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 again	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 moment	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 moment	det
23	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 again	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 again	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 again	cop
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 was	compound:prt
27	again	again	ADV	_	3 threw	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 crooking	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 crooking	cc
30	crooking	crook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 threw	advcl
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 leg	nmod:poss
32	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 crooking	obj
33	round	round	ADP	_	35 shoulders	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 shoulders	det
35	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 crooking	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 giant	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 giant	det
38	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 shoulders	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 threw	punct
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 threw	nsubj
41	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 threw	obj
43	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	41 threw	advmod
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 ground	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 ground	det
46	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 threw	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 threw	punct
48	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	brothers = brother	brothers's arms			round property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent arm=Destination each=Theme
2	force	participle · passive		the giant	Ian's knees			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
3	is	past	Ian			moment	again property	tree rules
4	crook	gerund	brothers = brother not said here	Ian's leg			round the shoulders of the giant	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
5	throw	past	Ian	giant	the ground		heavily property	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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