The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 44

From afar the giant beheld the blaze of the White Sword of Light, and his heart rejoiced; and he took the blue falcon and put it in a basket, and gave it to Ian Direach, who bore it swiftly away to the place where the princess, and the bay colt, and the real Sword of Light were awaiting him.

Who acts: giant, heart, Light, bay colt, White Sword · What happens: behold, rejoice, take, put, give, bear · To what, where: blaze, afar, blue falcon, giant, basket, Ian

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, heart, Light, bay colt), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 afar	case
2	afar	afar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beheld	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beheld	nsubj
5	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 blaze	det
7	blaze	blaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beheld	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 Sword	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sword	det
10	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Sword	amod
11	Sword	Sword	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 blaze	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Light	case
13	Light	Light	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Sword	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rejoiced	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rejoiced	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 heart	nmod:poss
17	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rejoiced	nsubj
18	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 beheld	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 took	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 took	nsubj
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 beheld	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 falcon	det
24	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 falcon	amod
25	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 put	cc
27	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 took	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 put	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 basket	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 basket	det
31	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 gave	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 gave	cc
34	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 took	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 gave	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 Ian	case
37	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 gave	obl
38	Direach	Direach	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Ian	flat
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 bore	punct
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 bore	nsubj
41	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 gave	conj
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 bore	obj
43	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	44 away	advmod
44	away	away	ADV	_	41 bore	advmod
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 place	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 place	det
47	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 bore	obl
48	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	50 princess	advmod
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 princess	det
50	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 place	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 awaiting	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 awaiting	cc
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 colt	det
54	bay	bay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 colt	amod
55	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 awaiting	nsubj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 Sword	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 Sword	cc
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 Sword	det
59	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 Sword	amod
60	Sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 colt	conj
61	of	of	ADP	_	62 Light	case
62	Light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 Sword	nmod
63	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 awaiting	aux
64	awaiting	await	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 took	advcl
65	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 awaiting	obj
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 beheld	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	behold	past	the giant	the blaze of the White Sword of Light		afar		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blaze=Stimulus
2	rejoice	past	Light's heart					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	take	past	Light		the blue falcon			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument falcon=Destination
4	put	infinitive	Light not said here	giant		a basket		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in basket=Destination
5	give	past	Light not said here	giant	Ian			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ian=Recipient
6	bear	past		giant			to the place the princess; away property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	await	past · progressive	the bay colt and the real Sword of Light	falcon				tree rules
8	blaze		the White Sword of Light					nom blaze «process intransitive»: of=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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