The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 46

For a little while Gille Mairtean let the giant play with him in this manner; then he turned in the giant's hand, and cut through the Five Necks, so that the Five Heads rolled on the ground.

Who acts: Gille, colt · What happens: let, turn, cut, roll · To what, where: giant play, manner, Five Heads, hand, ground

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 (Gille, 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 little	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 little	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 turned	obl
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 let	mark
5	Gille	Gille	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 let	nsubj
6	Mairtean	Mairtean	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Gille	flat
7	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 little	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 play	det
9	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 play	amod
10	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 let	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 play	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 manner	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 manner	det
15	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 play	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 turned	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 turned	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 turned	nsubj
19	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	in	in	ADP	_	24 hand	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 giant	det
22	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hand	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 giant	case
24	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 turned	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cut	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cut	cc
27	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 turned	conj
28	through	through	ADP	_	31 Necks	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Necks	det
30	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 Necks	nummod
31	Necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 cut	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Heads	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	37 Heads	advmod
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 Heads	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Heads	det
36	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 Heads	nummod
37	Heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 turned	obl
38	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 Heads	acl
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 ground	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 ground	det
41	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 rolled	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	Gille	the giant play	this manner		with colt	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Theme
2	turn	past	colt	the Five Heads	the giant's hand	then	for a little	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in hand=Trajectory
3	cut	participle	colt not said here				through the Five Necks	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through neck=Patient
4	roll	participle		the Five Heads not said here	the ground			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory

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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