The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 88

The boy grew to be a big boy, and one day the giant told him that he would have to amuse himself alone for many hours, as he had a journey to make.

Who acts: boy, giant, journey · What happens: grow, be, tell, have, amuse, make · To what, where: big boy, boy, giant, journey · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boy, giant, journey), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	8 boy	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 boy	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boy	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boy	amod
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 day	nummod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	obl:unmarked
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 giant	det
14	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	parataxis
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 have	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 have	aux
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 told	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 amuse	mark
22	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 have	xcomp
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 amuse	obj
24	alone	alone	ADV	_	22 amuse	advmod
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 hours	case
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hours	amod
27	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 amuse	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 had	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 told	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 journey	det
33	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 make	mark
35	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 had	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the boy					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive	the boy not said here	a big boy				tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	the giant		boy	day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	have	would	giant					tree rules
5	amuse	to-infinitive	giant not said here	giant		hour	alone property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
6	have	past	giant	a journey				tree rules
7	make	to-infinitive	a journey not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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