The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 9

It was still dark when the giant got up and went his way, and then the king and the queen ran forward to take up the threshold, while the horses looked on.

Who acts: threshold, giant, king, horses · What happens: be, get up, go, run, take up, look on · To what, where: way, threshold

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 (threshold, giant, king, horses), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dark	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	cop
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 dark	advmod
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 got	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	advcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 got	compound:prt
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 got	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 way	nmod:poss
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ran	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ran	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 ran	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ran	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 queen	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 queen	det
21	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 king	conj
22	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	parataxis
23	forward	forward	ADV	_	22 ran	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 take	mark
25	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 ran	advcl
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 take	compound:prt
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 threshold	det
28	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 take	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 looked	punct
30	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 looked	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 horses	det
32	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 looked	nsubj
33	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ran	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	33 looked	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	threshold		still	dark property	tree rules
2	get up	past	the giant				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	go	past	the giant not said here	giant's way			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
4	run	past	the king and the queen		then	forward property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take up	to-infinitive	the king and the queen not said here	the threshold			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent threshold=Theme
6	look on	past	the horses				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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