The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 53
And the giant, who was striding headlong forwards, got caught in it, and it pulled his hair and beard.
Who acts: ear · What happens: stride, catch, pull · To what, where: headlong forwards, ear, hair
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 (ear), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 giant | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 giant | det |
| 3 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 striding | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 striding | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 striding | aux |
| 7 | striding | stride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 giant | parataxis |
| 8 | headlong | headlong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 forwards | amod |
| 9 | forwards | forward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 striding | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 caught | punct |
| 11 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 caught | aux:pass |
| 12 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 striding | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 caught | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pulled | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pulled | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 pulled | nsubj |
| 18 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 caught | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hair | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pulled | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 beard | cc |
| 22 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hair | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 giant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stride | past · progressive | headlong forwards | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forward=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | catch | past · passive | ear | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | pull | past | ear | breath's hair and beard | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme |
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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