The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 19
And after that the shadow suddenly shrank and was still, and they knew that the giant was dead, because they had found his soul.
Who acts: shadow, king, giant · What happens: shrink, be, know, find · To what, where: soul
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shadow, king, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 knew | cc |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 shrank | mark |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 shrank | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shadow | det |
| 5 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shrank | nsubj |
| 6 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 7 shrank | advmod |
| 7 | shrank | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 knew | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 still | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 still | cop |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 shrank | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 knew | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 knew | nsubj |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 dead | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 giant | det |
| 17 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dead | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 dead | cop |
| 19 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 knew | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 found | punct |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 24 found | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 found | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 found | aux |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 knew | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 soul | nmod:poss |
| 26 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shrink | past | the shadow | suddenly property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the shadow not said here | still property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | past | king | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the giant | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | find | past · perfect | king | giant's soul | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Topic |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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