The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 104

‘A stranger, my lord! no stranger ever comes here, not even the sun!’ and the king’s wife laughed gaily as she went up to the giant and stroked the huge hand which hung down by his side.

Who acts: stranger, wife, huge hand · What happens: come, laugh, go up, stroke, hang down · To what, where: sun, huge hand

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, wife, huge hand), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 stranger	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stranger	det
3	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 comes	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lord	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lord	nmod:poss
6	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stranger	conj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 stranger	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 stranger	det
9	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 comes	nsubj
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 comes	advmod
11	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 comes	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sun	punct
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 sun	advmod
15	even	even	ADV	_	17 sun	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sun	det
17	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 comes	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 sun	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 sun	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 laughed	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 king	det
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wife	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 king	case
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 laughed	nsubj
25	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 comes	conj
26	gaily	gaily	ADV	_	25 laughed	advmod
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 went	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 laughed	advcl
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 went	compound:prt
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 giant	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 giant	det
33	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 went	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 stroked	cc
35	stroked	stroke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 went	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 hand	det
37	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 hand	amod
38	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stroked	obj
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 hung	nsubj
40	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 hand	acl:relcl
41	down	down	ADP	_	40 hung	compound:prt
42	by	by	ADP	_	44 side	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 side	nmod:poss
44	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 hung	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	no stranger	the sun	here	ever		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	laugh	past	the king's wife				gaily property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go up	past	wife				to the giant	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	stroke	past	wife not said here	the huge hand				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Experiencer
5	hang down	past	the huge hand				by king's side	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location

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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