The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 107

But the horsemen wouldn’t believe him till they rode into the wood and found the giants weltering in their blood, and the trees lying around, torn up by the roots.

Who acts: horsemen, giants, trees · What happens: not believe, ride, find, welter, lie around, tear up · To what, where: tailor, wood, giants, blood

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horsemen, giants, trees), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 believe	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horsemen	det
3	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 believe	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 believe	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 believe	advmod
6	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 believe	obj
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 rode	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rode	nsubj
10	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 believe	ccomp
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 wood	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wood	det
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rode	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 found	cc
15	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rode	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 giants	det
17	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 found	obj
18	weltering	welter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 giants	acl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 blood	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 blood	nmod:poss
21	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 weltering	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lying	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 lying	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 trees	det
25	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lying	nsubj
26	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 believe	parataxis
27	around	around	ADV	_	26 lying	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 torn	punct
29	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 lying	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 torn	compound:prt
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 roots	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 roots	det
33	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 torn	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not believe	would	the horsemen	tailor			tree rules
2	ride	past	horsemen = horseman		the wood		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into wood=Trajectory
3	find	past	horsemen = horseman not said here	the giants			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Topic
4	welter	gerund	the giants not said here		horsemen's blood		tree rules
5	lie around	gerund	the trees			around property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	tear up	participle	the trees not said here			by the roots	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by root=Trajectory

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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