The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 23
But the giant was now in sight, roaring like a hundred lions, and the other giant was out in a moment, and the chase kept on.
Who acts: giant, other giant · What happens: be, roar, keep on · To what, where: sight, chase
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, other 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 | _ | 7 sight | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 giant | det |
| 3 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sight | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sight | cop |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 sight | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 roaring | punct |
| 9 | roaring | roar | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sight | conj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 lions | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hundred | det |
| 12 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 lions | nummod |
| 13 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 roaring | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 out | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 out | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 giant | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 giant | amod |
| 18 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 out | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 out | cop |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 roaring | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 moment | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 moment | det |
| 23 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 out | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 chase | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 chase | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 chase | det |
| 27 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sight | conj |
| 28 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 chase | acl |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 kept | compound:prt |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the giant | sight and the chase | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | roar | gerund | the giant not said here | like hundred lions | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the other giant | moment | out property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | keep on | participle | the chase not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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 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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