The Red Fairy Book, The Talking Harp., sentence 4

By-and-by the Giant came home, and as soon as he had crossed the threshold he roared out:

Who acts: Giant, face · What happens: come, cross, roar out · To what, where: threshold

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Talking Harp.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giant, face), 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	17 crossed	mark
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 crossed	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 crossed	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Giant	det
7	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 crossed	advcl
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 crossed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 crossed	cc
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 soon	advmod
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 crossed	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 crossed	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 crossed	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 crossed	aux
17	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 roared	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 threshold	det
19	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crossed	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 roared	nsubj
21	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 roared	compound:prt
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 roared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Giant		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cross	past · perfect	face	the threshold	soon property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent threshold=Patient
3	roar out	past	face			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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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