The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 90
After a while he spied the two giants lying asleep under a tree, and snoring till the very boughs bent with the breeze.
Who acts: tailor, two giants · What happens: spy, lie, bend · To what, where: two giants, tree, boughs
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 (tailor, two giants), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spied | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spied | nsubj |
| 5 | spied | spy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 giants | det |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 giants | nummod |
| 8 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spied | obj |
| 9 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 giants | acl |
| 10 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lying | xcomp |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lying | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 snoring | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 snoring | cc |
| 16 | snoring | snoring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spied | obl |
| 17 | till | till | ADP | _ | 20 boughs | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 boughs | det |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 boughs | advmod |
| 20 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 snoring | nmod |
| 21 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 boughs | acl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 breeze | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 breeze | det |
| 24 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bent | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spy | past | tailor | the two giants | while | snoring till the boughs obl | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giant=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | lie | gerund | the two giants not said here | a tree | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | |||
| 3 | bend | participle | the boughs not said here | with the breeze | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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