The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 17
But, alas! she met none of these; instead, a horrible giant came out of his cave and ordered her to follow him.
Who acts: princess, horrible giant · What happens: meet, come out, order, follow · To what, where: none, cave, princess, giant
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, horrible giant), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 met | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 met | punct |
| 3 | alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 6 met | discourse |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 alas | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 met | nsubj |
| 6 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 6 met | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 these | case |
| 9 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 none | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 11 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 instead | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 giant | det |
| 14 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 giant | amod |
| 15 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 met | parataxis |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 cave | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 cave | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 cave | nmod:poss |
| 20 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ordered | cc |
| 22 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 came | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ordered | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 follow | mark |
| 25 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 ordered | xcomp |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 follow | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | princess | none | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | come out | past | a horrible giant | giant's cave | instead property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient cave=Result | |||
| 3 | order | past | a horrible giant not said here | princess | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | follow not said to happen | to-infinitive | a horrible giant not said here | giant | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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