The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 52
Well, it was no use wishing, and with a sigh he glanced up, and beheld a huge giant coming towards him.
Who acts: flower, use, huge giant · What happens: wish, glance up, behold, come · To what, where: huge giant
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 (flower, use, huge 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 wishing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wishing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wishing | aux |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 use | det |
| 6 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wishing | nsubj |
| 7 | wishing | wish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 glanced | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 glanced | cc |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 sigh | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sigh | det |
| 12 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 glanced | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 glanced | nsubj |
| 14 | glanced | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wishing | parataxis |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 glanced | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 beheld | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 beheld | cc |
| 18 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 glanced | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 giant | det |
| 20 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 giant | amod |
| 21 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 beheld | obj |
| 22 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 giant | acl |
| 23 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 coming | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wishing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past · progressive | flower | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | glance up | past | use | with a sigh | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | behold | past | use not said here | a huge giant | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giant=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come | gerund | a huge giant not said here | towards use | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_Location |
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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