The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 6
And Geirald’s heart swelled with pride, and he almost forgot that it was Rosald and not he, who had slain the giant.
Who acts: heart, deed, Rosald · What happens: swell, forget, be, slay · To what, where: Rosald, giant
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, deed, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 swelled | cc |
| 2 | Geirald | Geirald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Geirald | case |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swelled | nsubj |
| 5 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 pride | case |
| 7 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swelled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 forgot | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 forgot | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 forgot | nsubj |
| 11 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 12 forgot | advmod |
| 12 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 swelled | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 Rosald | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 Rosald | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Rosald | cop |
| 16 | Rosald | Rosald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 forgot | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 he | cc |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 he | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 Rosald | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 slain | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 slain | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 slain | aux |
| 23 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 Rosald | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 giant | det |
| 25 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 slain | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swell | past | Geirald's heart | with pride | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | heart | almost property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | deed | Rosald | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | slay | past · perfect | Rosald | the giant | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Patient |
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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