The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 4

The idiot obeyed, but at the first taste of the apple the giant staggered, and as the long yellow finger of the woman touched him he fell dead.

Who acts: idiot, giant, long yellow finger, finger · What happens: obey, stagger, touch, fall, taste · To what, where: first taste, giant, apple

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idiot, giant, long yellow finger, finger), 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	2 idiot	det
2	idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 obeyed	nsubj
3	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 staggered	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 staggered	cc
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 taste	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 taste	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 taste	amod
9	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 staggered	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 apple	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 apple	det
12	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taste	nmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 giant	det
14	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 staggered	nsubj
15	staggered	stagger	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 obeyed	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 touched	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 touched	cc
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 touched	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 finger	det
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 finger	amod
21	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 finger	amod
22	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 touched	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 woman	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 woman	det
25	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 finger	nmod
26	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 obeyed	parataxis
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 touched	obj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 fell	nsubj
29	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 touched	conj
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fell	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 obeyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	obey	past	the idiot				vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	stagger	past	the giant		the first taste of the apple		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at taste=Trajectory
3	touch	past	the long yellow finger of the woman	giant			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
4	fall	past	finger			dead property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	taste			the apple			nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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