The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 45

So well content was the giant to possess the sword he had coveted for many a year, that he began at once to whirl it through the air, and to cut and slash with it.

Who acts: well content, colt · What happens: be, possess, covet, begin, whirl, cut · To what, where: sword, air

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 (well content, 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 giant	advmod
2	well	well	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 content	amod
3	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giant	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 giant	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 possess	mark
8	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 giant	csubj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sword	det
10	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 possess	obj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 coveted	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 coveted	aux
13	coveted	covet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 sword	acl:relcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 year	case
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 year	amod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 year	det
17	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 coveted	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 began	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 began	nsubj
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 possess	advcl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 once	case
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 began	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 whirl	mark
25	whirl	whirl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 began	xcomp
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 whirl	obj
27	through	through	ADP	_	29 air	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 air	det
29	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 whirl	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cut	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 cut	cc
32	to	to	PART	_	33 cut	mark
33	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 possess	advcl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 slash	cc
35	slash	slash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 cut	conj
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 slash	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 giant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	well content				giant property	tree rules
2	possess	to-infinitive		the sword				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sword=Theme
3	covet	past · perfect	colt	the sword not said here		year		vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sword=Theme
4	begin	past	colt					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	whirl	to-infinitive	colt not said here	Sword	the air			vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme through air=Destination
6	cut	to-infinitive						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	slash	infinitive					with Sword	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with it=Instrument

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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