The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 26
He had the Giantess buried, and endeavoured as much as lay in his power to do right to those whom the Giant had robbed.
Who acts: Jack, Giantess · What happens: have, bury, endeavour, lie, do, rob · To what, where: much, power, Giant
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 (Jack, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Giantess | det |
| 4 | Giantess | Giantess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 buried | nsubj |
| 5 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 endeavoured | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 endeavoured | cc |
| 8 | endeavoured | endeavour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 endeavoured | obj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 lay | mark |
| 12 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 much | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 power | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 power | nmod:poss |
| 15 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lay | advcl |
| 18 | right | right | ADV | _ | 20 those | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 those | case |
| 20 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 do | obl |
| 21 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 robbed | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Giant | det |
| 23 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 robbed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 robbed | aux |
| 25 | robbed | rob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 those | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Jack | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bury | past | the Giantess | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | endeavour | past | Jack not said here | much | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lie | past | Jack not said here | Jack's power | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in power=Location | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | to those | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | rob | past · perfect · passive | the Giant | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |
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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