The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 36

To prove him again, the giant lifted a stone and threw it so high that the eye could hardly follow it.

Who acts: giant, eye · What happens: prove, lift, throw, follow · To what, where: play, stone, giant

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 (giant, eye), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 prove	mark
2	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 lifted	advcl
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 prove	obj
4	again	again	ADV	_	2 prove	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 prove	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lifted	nsubj
8	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stone	det
10	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lifted	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 threw	cc
12	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lifted	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 threw	obj
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 high	advmod
15	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 threw	xcomp
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 follow	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 eye	det
18	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 follow	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 follow	aux
20	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	21 follow	advmod
21	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 high	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 follow	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	prove	to-infinitive	the giant not said here	play	again		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	lift	past	the giant	a stone			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
3	throw	past	the giant not said here	giant		high property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	follow	could	the eye	giant		hardly property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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