The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 83

In a certain wood of his kingdom there dwelled two giants who did much harm; by the way they robbed, murdered, burned, and plundered everything about them; “no one could approach them without endangering his life.

Who acts: two giants, people, one · What happens: dwelle, do, rob, murder, burn, plunder · To what, where: two giants, certain wood, much harm, everything, people, life

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 (two giants, people, one), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 wood	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wood	det
3	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wood	amod
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dwelled	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 kingdom	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 kingdom	nmod:poss
7	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wood	nmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 dwelled	advmod
9	dwelled	dwelle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 giants	nummod
11	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dwelled	obj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 did	nsubj
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 giants	acl:relcl
14	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 harm	amod
15	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 did	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 robbed	punct
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 way	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 way	det
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 robbed	obl
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 robbed	nsubj
21	robbed	rob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dwelled	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 murdered	punct
23	murdered	murder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 robbed	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 burned	punct
25	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 murdered	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 plundered	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 plundered	cc
28	plundered	plunder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 robbed	conj
29	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	28 plundered	obj
30	about	about	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 everything	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 approach	punct
33	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 approach	punct
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 one	det
35	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 approach	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 approach	aux
37	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 dwelled	conj
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 approach	obj
39	without	without	SCONJ	_	40 endangering	mark
40	endangering	endanger	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 approach	advcl
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 life	nmod:poss
42	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 endangering	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 dwelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dwelle	past		two giants	a certain wood of King's kingdom; there		tree rules
2	do	past	two giants	much harm			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality
3	rob	past	people			by the way	vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	murder	past	people not said here				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	burn	past	people not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	plunder	past	people not said here	everything		about people	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Source
7	approach in a quote	could	no one	people			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
8	endanger in a quote	gerund	no one not said here	King's life			tree rules

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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