The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 23
Nobody was to be seen, but on leaving the hall they found the body of the Giantess at the foot of the stairs.
Who acts: people · What happens: see, leave, find · To what, where: Nobody, hall, body, foot
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Giant Breaks His Neck.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux:pass |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 seen | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seen | aux:pass |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 found | cc |
| 8 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 9 leaving | mark |
| 9 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 found | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hall | det |
| 11 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaving | obj |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 found | nsubj |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 body | det |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Giantess | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Giantess | det |
| 18 | Giantess | Giantess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 body | nmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 foot | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 foot | det |
| 21 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 stairs | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stairs | det |
| 24 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 foot | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | Nobody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | leave | gerund | people not said here | the hall | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | people | the body of the Giantess | the foot of the stairs | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent body=Theme at foot=Asset |
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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