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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

advmodpunctnsubjaux:passadvmodcasenmod:possnmod:posscaseoblobjnsubjadvmodacl:relcldetobjcasedetnmodpunctccnmod:possnsubj:passaux:passadvmodconjcompound:prtmarkadvclnmod:possobjadvmodnmod:possnsubjadvclpunctcccasedetamodoblnsubjcopadvmodadvmodcasenmod:possoblpunctrootIndeedADV,PUNCThePRONwasAUXsoADVexhaustedVERBwithADPhisPRONdayNOUN’sPARTworkNOUNthatPRONhePRONneverADVheardVERBtheDETapproachNOUNofADPtheDETgiantsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheirPRONhandsNOUNwereAUXalreadyADVstretchedVERBoutADPtoPARTseizeVERBhisPRONtailNOUNwhenADVhisPRONeyesNOUNopenedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJwithADPaDETtremendousADJboundNOUNhePRONwasAUXonceADVmoreADVbeyondADPtheirPRONreachNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IndeedindeedADV_6 exhaustedadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Indeedpunct
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 exhaustednsubj
4wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 exhaustedaux:pass
5sosoADV_6 exhaustedadvmod
6exhaustedexhaustVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
7withwithADP_11 workcase
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 daynmod:poss
9daydayNOUNNumber=Sing11 worknmod:poss
10’s'sPART_9 daycase
11workworkNOUNNumber=Sing6 exhaustedobl
12thatthatPRONPronType=Rel15 heardobj
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 heardnsubj
14neverneverADVPronType=Neg15 heardadvmod
15heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 workacl:relcl
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 approachdet
17approachapproachNOUNNumber=Sing15 heardobj
18ofofADP_20 giantscase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 giantsdet
20giantsgiantNOUNNumber=Plur17 approachnmod
21,,PUNCT_27 stretchedpunct
22andandCCONJ_27 stretchedcc
23theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 handsnmod:poss
24handshandNOUNNumber=Plur27 stretchednsubj:pass
25werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 stretchedaux:pass
26alreadyalreadyADV_27 stretchedadvmod
27stretchedstretchVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass15 heardconj
28outoutADP_27 stretchedcompound:prt
29totoPART_30 seizemark
30seizeseizeVERBVerbForm=Inf27 stretchedadvcl
31hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 tailnmod:poss
32tailtailNOUNNumber=Sing30 seizeobj
33whenwhenADVPronType=Int36 openedadvmod
34hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs35 eyesnmod:poss
35eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur36 openednsubj
36openedopenVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 seizeadvcl
37,,PUNCT_49 reachpunct
38andandCCONJ_49 reachcc
39withwithADP_42 boundcase
40aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art42 bounddet
41tremendoustremendousADJDegree=Pos42 boundamod
42boundboundNOUNNumber=Sing49 reachobl
43hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs49 reachnsubj
44wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin49 reachcop
45onceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult46 moreadvmod
46moremoreADVDegree=Cmp49 reachadvmod
47beyondbeyondADP_49 reachcase
48theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs49 reachnmod:poss
49reachreachNOUNNumber=Sing6 exhaustedobl
50..PUNCT_6 exhaustedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1exhaustpast · passivegiantwith giant's day's work; indeed propertyvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2not hearpastgiantgiant's day's worktree rules
3stretch outpast · passivefriends's handsvn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4seizeto-infinitivegiant's tailvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
5openpastgiant's eyesvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6ispastgiantbeyond friends's reach; with a tremendous boundtree rules
7workgiant's daynom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent
8approachthe giantsnom 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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