The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 14

When he saw this, he understood what had happened, and fell into such a rage that he hardly knew what he was doing.

Who acts: giant · What happens: see, understand, happen, fall, know, do · To what, where: this, rage · Speech: someone speaks here

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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 understood	advcl
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 saw	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 understood	nsubj
7	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 happened	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 happened	aux
10	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 understood	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fell	cc
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 understood	conj
14	into	into	ADP	_	17 rage	case
15	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	17 rage	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 rage	det
17	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 knew	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 knew	nsubj
20	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	21 knew	advmod
21	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fell	advcl
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 doing	obj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 doing	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 doing	aux
25	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 knew	ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	giant	this		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	understand	past	giant			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	happen	past · perfect				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall	past	giant not said here		into such rage result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into rage=Result
5	know	past	giant		hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	do	past · progressive	giant			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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