The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 66
Seven years and a day had gone by, when one morning, while standing on the ramparts, he beheld the giant striding towards the castle.
Who acts: day, son, giant · What happens: go by, stand, behold, stride · To what, where: ramparts, giant, castle
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 (day, son, 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 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gone | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 years | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gone | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | aux |
| 7 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 gone | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 morning | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 morning | advmod |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 morning | nummod |
| 12 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gone | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 standing | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 standing | mark |
| 15 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 gone | advcl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 ramparts | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ramparts | det |
| 18 | ramparts | rampart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 standing | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 beheld | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 beheld | nsubj |
| 21 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 standing | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 giant | det |
| 23 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 beheld | obj |
| 24 | striding | stride | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 giant | acl |
| 25 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 27 castle | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 castle | det |
| 27 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 striding | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past · perfect | a day | morning; year | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | a day not said here | the ramparts | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rampart=Location | ||||
| 3 | behold | past | son | the giant | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giant=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | stride | gerund | the giant not said here | the castle | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards castle=Destination |
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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