The Red Fairy Book, The Talking Harp., sentence 8
And the Giant sat down, and his wife brought up a whole sheep for his dinner.
Who acts: Giant, wife · What happens: sit down, bring up · To what, where: whole sheep
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, wife), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sat | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Giant | det |
| 3 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 sat | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brought | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 brought | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | nsubj |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 brought | compound:prt |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sheep | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sheep | amod |
| 14 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 dinner | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | the Giant | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bring up | past | face's wife | a whole sheep | for face's dinner | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sheep=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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