The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 8

And the second giant heard it on the hunting hill, and lifted his head, thinking--

Who acts: second giant · What happens: hear, lift, think · To what, where: chain, hunting hill, head

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 (second 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 heard	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
3	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 giant	amod
4	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 hill	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hill	det
9	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hill	compound
10	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lifted	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lifted	cc
13	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lifted	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thinking	punct
17	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 lifted	conj
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past	the second giant	chain	the hunting hill	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	lift	past	the second giant not said here	man's head		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
3	think speech: other	gerund	the second giant not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «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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