The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 68
And the giant, who was striding on so fast, could not stop himself, and he walked right into the middle and was drowned.
Who acts: breath · What happens: stride on, not stop, walk, drown · To what, where: breath, middle
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 (breath), 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 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 striding | compound:prt |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 fast | advmod |
| 10 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 striding | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stop | punct |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 stop | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 stop | advmod |
| 14 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 striding | conj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 stop | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 walked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 walked | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 walked | nsubj |
| 19 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 giant | parataxis |
| 20 | right | right | ADV | _ | 23 middle | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 middle | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 middle | det |
| 23 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 walked | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 drowned | cc |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 drowned | aux:pass |
| 26 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 walked | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 giant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stride on | past · progressive | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not stop | could | breath | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality himself=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | walk | past | breath | into the middle result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into middle=Result | ||||
| 4 | drown | past · passive | breath not said here | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |
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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