The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 4

And when the great beast beheld the hard blows which the giant dealt his master he flew at his throat, and much trouble had the monster in beating him off.

Who acts: great beast, giant, much trouble · What happens: behold, deal, fly, have, beat off · To what, where: hard blows, master, throat, monster, giant

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great beast, giant, much trouble), 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	_	6 beheld	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 beheld	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beast	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beast	amod
5	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beheld	nsubj
6	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 blows	det
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 blows	amod
9	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 beheld	obj
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 dealt	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 giant	det
12	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dealt	nsubj
13	dealt	deal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 blows	acl:relcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 master	nmod:poss
15	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dealt	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 flew	nsubj
17	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 master	acl:relcl
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 throat	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 throat	nmod:poss
20	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flew	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
23	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 trouble	amod
24	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 beheld	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 monster	det
27	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
28	in	in	SCONJ	_	29 beating	mark
29	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 had	advcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 beating	obj
31	off	off	ADP	_	29 beating	compound:prt
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 beheld	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	behold	past	the great beast	the hard blows		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blow=Stimulus
2	deal	past	the giant	the hard blows		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent which=Recipient master=Theme
3	fly	past	giant	giant's master not said here	giant's throat	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent master=Theme at throat=Location
4	have	past	much trouble	the monster		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=Patient
5	beat off	gerund	much trouble not said here	giant		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=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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