The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 31
So he went and gave the eggs to the giant, who nodded his head.
Who acts: father · What happens: go, give, nod · To what, where: eggs, giant, head
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gave | cc |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 eggs | det |
| 7 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gave | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 giant | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 giant | det |
| 10 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gave | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 nodded | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 nodded | nsubj |
| 13 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nodded | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | father | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give | past | father not said here | the eggs | the giant | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent egg=Theme to giant=Recipient | |||
| 3 | nod | past | father's head | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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