The Red Fairy Book, The Money Bags., sentence 10
As soon as they had finished their meal, the Giantess rose and said:
Who acts: bones, Giantess · What happens: finish, rise, say · To what, where: meal · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Money Bags.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bones, Giantess), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 rose | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 finished | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 finished | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 finished | aux |
| 6 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 soon | advcl |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 meal | nmod:poss |
| 8 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 finished | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 soon | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Giantess | det |
| 11 | Giantess | Giantess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 rose | nsubj |
| 12 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rose | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | bones = bone | bones's meal | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality meal=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | the Giantess | soon property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Giantess not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 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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