The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 74
They had not walked far when the giant stopped and stretched out a stick to the boy.
Who acts: clothes, giant · What happens: not walk, stop, stretch out · To what, where: stick
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 (clothes, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 walked | advmod |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 walked | advmod |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 stopped | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 giant | det |
| 8 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stopped | nsubj |
| 9 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 far | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stretched | cc |
| 11 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 walked | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 stretched | compound:prt |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 stick | det |
| 14 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stretched | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 boy | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boy | det |
| 17 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stretched | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not walk | past · perfect | clothes | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | the giant | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | stretch out | participle | clothes not said here | a stick | to the boy | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to boy=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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