The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 18

‘Rumour whispered of these treasures; and a monstrous giant, who lived at no great distance, and who was a very wicked being, resolved to obtain possession of them.

Who acts: Rumour, monstrous giant · What happens: whisper, live, be, resolve, obtain, possess · To what, where: monstrous giant, possession, treasures

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rumour, monstrous 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 whispered	punct
2	Rumour	Rumour	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 whispered	nsubj
3	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 treasures	case
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 treasures	det
6	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 whispered	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 giant	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 giant	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 giant	det
10	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 giant	amod
11	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whispered	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lived	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 lived	nsubj
14	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 giant	acl:relcl
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 distance	case
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 distance	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 distance	amod
18	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lived	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wicked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 wicked	cc
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 wicked	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 wicked	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 wicked	det
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 wicked	advmod
25	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 whispered	parataxis
26	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 wicked	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 resolved	punct
28	resolved	resolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 wicked	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 obtain	mark
30	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 resolved	xcomp
31	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 obtain	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 possession	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	past	Rumour	a monstrous giant	of this treasures	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	live	past	a monstrous giant		at no great distance	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at distance=Location
3	is	past			wicked property	tree rules
4	resolve	participle				tree rules
5	obtain	to-infinitive		possession of treasures		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset possession=Theme
6	possess			treasures = treasure		nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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