The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 23
His way led up a hill, on the top of which sat a powerful giant, who was calmly surveying the landscape.
Who acts: way, top, powerful giant · What happens: lead up, sit, survey · To what, where: hill, top, powerful giant, landscape
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 (way, top, powerful 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 way | nmod:poss |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 led | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hill | det |
| 6 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 top | punct |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 top | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 top | det |
| 10 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 sat | nsubj |
| 13 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 top | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 giant | det |
| 15 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 giant | amod |
| 16 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sat | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 surveying | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 surveying | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 surveying | aux |
| 20 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 21 surveying | advmod |
| 21 | surveying | survey | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 giant | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 landscape | det |
| 23 | landscape | landscape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 surveying | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead up | past | field's way | a hill | the top | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sit | past | the top | a powerful giant | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location giant=Theme | ||||
| 3 | survey | past · progressive | a powerful giant | the landscape | calmly property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landscape=Theme |
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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