The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 1
Now, when the giant had slept a good long time, he began to stretch himself on the bench on which he was lying.
Who acts: giant · What happens: sleep, begin, stretch, lie · To what, where: giant, bench
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 began | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 slept | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 giant | det |
| 5 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slept | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 slept | aux |
| 7 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 began | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slept | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 slept | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 began | nsubj |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 stretch | mark |
| 16 | stretch | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 began | xcomp |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 stretch | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 bench | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bench | det |
| 20 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stretch | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 lying | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 lying | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 lying | aux |
| 25 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 bench | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past · perfect · passive | the giant | time | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | giant | now | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | stretch | to-infinitive | giant not said here | giant | the bench | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 4 | lie | past · progressive | giant | the bench | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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