The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 7

Moreover, the Giantess was very kind to me.’

Who acts: Giantess · What happens: be · To what, where: me

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 (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	Moreover	moreover	ADV	_	7 kind	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Moreover	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Giantess	det
4	Giantess	Giantess	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 kind	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kind	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 kind	advmod
7	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 kind	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 kind	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Giantess		me			kind, moreover property	tree rules

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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