The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 131

‘The giant then called to the ring, where it was, and to my great surprise it made him answer on my foot; and he, guided by the same, made a leap at me which I had the good luck to observe, and fortunately escaped the danger.

Who acts: ring, fear, I, my · What happens: call, make, answer, guide, have, observe · To what, where: giant, ring, fear, foot, leap, good luck · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ring, fear, I, my), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 called	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 called	nsubj:pass
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 called	advmod
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 ring	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ring	det
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 was	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 was	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 was	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ring	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 made	cc
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 surprise	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 surprise	nmod:poss
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 surprise	amod
18	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 made	obl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 made	nsubj
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 called	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 made	obj
22	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 made	xcomp
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 foot	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 foot	nmod:poss
25	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 answer	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 guided	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 guided	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 guided	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 guided	punct
30	guided	guide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 called	conj
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 same	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 same	det
33	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 guided	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 made	punct
35	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 guided	parataxis
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 leap	det
37	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 made	obj
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 me	case
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 made	obl
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 had	obj
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 had	nsubj
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 made	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 luck	det
44	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 luck	amod
45	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 had	obj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 observe	mark
47	observe	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 luck	acl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 escaped	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 escaped	cc
50	fortunately	fortunately	ADV	_	51 escaped	advmod
51	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 made	conj
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 danger	det
53	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 escaped	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle · passive		the giant	the ring		then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to ring=Recipient
2	make	past	ring	fear				to my great surprise	tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	infinitive	fear not said here			my foot			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	guide	participle	fear					by the same	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by same=Destination
5	make	past		a leap				at me	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset leap=Product
6	have	past	I	the good luck					tree rules
7	observe	to-infinitive	I not said here	the good luck not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	escape	past		the danger				fortunately property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme danger=Initial_Location
9	surprise		my						nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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