The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 124

Hearing the sound of footsteps, the giant got up and went to the entrance to see who was coming, and Rosald, expecting something of the sort, struck him such a blow on the forehead that he fell to the ground.

Who acts: giant, Rosald · What happens: hear, get up, go, see, come, expect · To what, where: sound, entrance, something, Rosald, forehead · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, Rosald), 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	Hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 got	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sound	det
3	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hearing	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 footsteps	case
5	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sound	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hearing	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 giant	det
8	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 got	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 got	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 entrance	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 entrance	det
15	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 went	advcl
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 coming	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 coming	aux
20	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 see	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 expecting	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 expecting	cc
23	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 expecting	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 expecting	punct
25	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 got	advcl
26	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 expecting	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 sort	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sort	det
29	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 something	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 struck	punct
31	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 got	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 struck	obj
33	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	35 blow	det:predet
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 blow	det
35	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 struck	obj
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 forehead	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 forehead	det
38	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 struck	obl
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 fell	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 fell	nsubj
41	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 struck	advcl
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 ground	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 ground	det
44	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 fell	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	the giant not said here	the sound of footsteps			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
2	get up	past	the giant				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	go	past	the giant not said here		the entrance		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to entrance=Initial_Location
4	see	to-infinitive	the giant not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	come	past · progressive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	expect	gerund	Rosald	something			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
7	strike	past	the giant not said here	Rosald	the forehead		tree rules
8	fall	past	Rosald			to the ground	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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