The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 107

As soon as the giant’s hands were near their mouths they each made a snap, and began to bit them, so that his groans and shrieks might have been heard a mile off.

Who acts: hands, feet, giant · What happens: be, make, begin, bit, hear off, groan · To what, where: snap, feet, groans

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 (hands, feet, giant), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 made	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	11 mouths	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
5	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hands	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 giant	case
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 mouths	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 mouths	cop
9	near	near	ADP	_	11 mouths	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mouths	nmod:poss
11	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 made	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	nsubj
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 they	det
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 snap	det
16	snap	snap	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 began	cc
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 made	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 bit	mark
21	bit	bit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bit	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 heard	punct
24	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	33 heard	mark
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 so	fixed
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 groans	nmod:poss
27	groans	groan	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 heard	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 shrieks	cc
29	shrieks	shriek	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 groans	conj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 heard	aux
31	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 heard	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 heard	aux:pass
33	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 began	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 mile	det
35	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heard	obl:unmarked
36	off	off	ADP	_	33 heard	compound:prt
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the giant's hands		as feet's mouths	tree rules
2	make	past	feet = foot	a snap	soon property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset snap=Product
3	begin	past	feet = foot not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	bit	to-infinitive	feet = foot not said here	feet = foot		tree rules
5	hear off	might · perfect · passive		giant's groans and shrieks	a mile obl:unmarked	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
6	groan		giant			nom groan «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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