The Red Fairy Book, The Money Bags., sentence 19

The Giant, when his wife was gone, took out heaps and heaps of golden pieces, and counted them, and put them in piles, till he was tired of the amusement.

Who acts: Giant, leave · What happens: be, take out, count, put · To what, where: heaps, piles

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 (Giant, leave), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Giant	det
2	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gone	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gone	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 gone	mark
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	cop
8	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	parataxis
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 took	compound:prt
12	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 took	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 heaps	cc
14	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 heaps	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 pieces	case
16	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pieces	amod
17	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 heaps	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 counted	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 counted	cc
20	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 counted	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 put	cc
24	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gone	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 put	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 piles	case
27	piles	pile	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 put	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tired	punct
29	till	till	SCONJ	_	32 tired	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 tired	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 tired	cop
32	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 put	advcl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 amusement	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 amusement	det
35	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tired	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Giant			gone property	tree rules
2	take out	past		heaps and heaps of golden pieces			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=Theme
3	count	past		heaps = heap			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	put	infinitive	the Giant not said here	heaps = heap	piles		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in pile=Destination
5	is	past	leave			of the amusement; tired property	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 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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