The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 62

As she was raving and roaring in this frantic manner part of the floor suddenly opened and a huge giant rose up carrying a great chest in his arms.

Who acts: Signy, floor, huge giant · What happens: rave, roar, open, rise up, carry · To what, where: frantic manner part, great chest, arms

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Signy, floor, huge 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 raving	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 raving	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 raving	aux
4	raving	rave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 roaring	cc
6	roaring	roar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 raving	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 part	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 part	nsubj
9	frantic	frantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 part	amod
10	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 part	compound
11	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roaring	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 floor	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 floor	det
14	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 part	nmod
15	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	16 opened	advmod
16	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 floor	acl:relcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 rose	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 giant	det
19	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 giant	amod
20	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rose	nsubj
21	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 raving	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 rose	compound:prt
23	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 rose	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 chest	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 chest	amod
26	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 carrying	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 arms	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 arms	nmod:poss
29	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 carrying	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 raving	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rave speech: other	past · progressive	Signy				vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	roar	gerund	Signy not said here		frantic manner part of the floor		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location
3	open	past	the floor not said here			suddenly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	rise up	past	a huge giant				tree rules
5	carry	gerund	a huge giant not said here	a great chest	brother's arms		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent chest=Value in arm=Location

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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