The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 113

‘Up there, in the Bonnach stone,’ answered the giant, pointing to a stone which was balanced loosely on an edge of rock.

What happens: answer, point, balance · To what, where: giant, Bonnach stone, stone, edge

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: 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 there	punct
2	Up	up	ADV	_	3 there	advmod
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 answered	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 there	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 stone	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stone	det
7	Bonnach	Bonnach	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 stone	compound
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stone	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 stone	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 giant	det
13	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 answered	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pointing	punct
15	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 answered	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 stone	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 stone	det
18	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pointing	obl
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 balanced	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 balanced	aux:pass
21	balanced	balance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 stone	acl:relcl
22	loosely	loosely	ADV	_	21 balanced	advmod
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 edge	case
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 edge	det
25	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 balanced	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 rock	case
27	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 edge	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the giant		the Bonnach stone; there		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent giant=Eventuality
2	point	gerund		a stone			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to stone=Recipient
3	balance	past · passive	a stone		a edge of rock	loosely property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme on edge=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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