The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 5
Dig a grave and bury the Giant, and then go and kill the Giantess.’
Who acts: you · What happens: dig, bury, go, kill · To what, where: grave, Giant, Giantess
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 (you), 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 | Dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 grave | det |
| 3 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dig | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bury | cc |
| 5 | bury | bury | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Dig | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Giant | det |
| 7 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bury | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 go | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 go | advmod |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Dig | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 kill | cc |
| 13 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Giantess | det |
| 15 | Giantess | Giantess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 kill | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dig | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dig | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | imperative | you not said here | a grave | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grave=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bury | infinitive | you not said here | the Giant | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | you not said here | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kill | infinitive | you not said here | the Giantess | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giantess=Theme |
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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