The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 65
Indeed, he was so exhausted with his day’s work that he never heard the approach of the giants, and their hands were already stretched out to seize his tail when his eyes opened, and with a tremendous bound he was once more beyond their reach.
Who acts: giant, eyes, day, giants · What happens: exhaust, not hear, stretch out, seize, open, be · To what, where: giant, work, hands, tail
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, eyes, day, giants), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 exhausted | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 exhausted | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 exhausted | aux:pass |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 exhausted | advmod |
| 6 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 work | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 day | nmod:poss |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 work | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 day | case |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exhausted | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 heard | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 heard | advmod |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 work | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 approach | det |
| 17 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 giants | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 giants | det |
| 20 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 approach | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stretched | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 stretched | cc |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hands | nmod:poss |
| 24 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 stretched | aux:pass |
| 26 | already | already | ADV | _ | 27 stretched | advmod |
| 27 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 heard | conj |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 stretched | compound:prt |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 seize | mark |
| 30 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 stretched | advcl |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 tail | nmod:poss |
| 32 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 seize | obj |
| 33 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 opened | advmod |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 35 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 opened | nsubj |
| 36 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 seize | advcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 reach | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 reach | cc |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 bound | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 bound | det |
| 41 | tremendous | tremendous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 bound | amod |
| 42 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 reach | obl |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 reach | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 reach | cop |
| 45 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 46 more | advmod |
| 46 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 49 reach | advmod |
| 47 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 49 reach | case |
| 48 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 reach | nmod:poss |
| 49 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exhausted | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 exhausted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exhaust | past · passive | giant | with giant's day's work; indeed property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not hear | past | giant | giant's day's work | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stretch out | past · passive | friends's hands | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | seize | to-infinitive | giant's tail | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | |||||
| 5 | open | past | giant's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | past | giant | beyond friends's reach; with a tremendous bound | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | work | giant's day | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | approach | the giants | nom approach «act 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 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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