The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 64

The horrid pair set to and greedily devoured it all, and when the chest was quite empty the giant put it on his shoulder and disappeared as he had come, without leaving any trace of his visit.

Who acts: horrid pair set, chest, set · What happens: devour, be, put, disappear, come, leave · To what, where: chest, shoulder, trace

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 (horrid pair set, chest, set), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 set	det
2	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 set	amod
3	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	compound
4	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 devoured	nsubj:outer
5	to	to	SCONJ	_	8 devoured	mark
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 devoured	cc
7	greedily	greedily	ADV	_	8 devoured	advmod
8	devoured	devour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 devoured	obj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 it	det
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 empty	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 empty	cc
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 empty	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 chest	det
15	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 empty	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 empty	cop
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 empty	advmod
18	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 devoured	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 giant	det
20	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 put	advcl
21	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 empty	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 shoulder	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 shoulder	nmod:poss
25	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 disappeared	cc
27	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 devoured	conj
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 come	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 come	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
31	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 disappeared	ccomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 leaving	punct
33	without	without	SCONJ	_	34 leaving	mark
34	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 come	advcl
35	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	36 trace	det
36	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 leaving	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 visit	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 visit	nmod:poss
39	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 trace	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 devoured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	devour	past	the horrid pair set	chest		greedily property	vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	is	past	the chest			empty property	tree rules
3	put	infinitive		chest	set's shoulder		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shoulder=Destination
4	disappear	past	the horrid pair set not said here				tree rules
5	come	past · perfect	set				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	leave	gerund	set not said here	any trace of set's visit			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Theme
7	visit		set				nom visit «act transitive»: poss=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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