The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 100

And when he began to climb there burst forth all around him a storm of scoffs and jeers; but he thought of the giant’s words, and looked neither to the right hand nor to the left, till the mountain top lay straight before him.

Who acts: man, mountain top, scoffs, giant · What happens: begin, climb, burst, think, look, lie

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, mountain top, scoffs, giant), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 began	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 began	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 climb	mark
6	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 climb	advmod
8	burst	burst	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 climb	xcomp
9	forth	forth	ADV	_	8 burst	advmod
10	all	all	ADV	_	12 him	advmod
11	around	around	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 burst	obl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 storm	det
14	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 him	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 scoffs	case
16	scoffs	scoff	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 storm	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 jeers	cc
18	jeers	jeer	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 scoffs	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 thought	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 thought	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thought	nsubj
22	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 words	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 giant	det
25	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 words	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 giant	case
27	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 thought	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 looked	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 looked	cc
30	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 thought	parataxis
31	neither	neither	ADV	_	30 looked	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 hand	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hand	det
34	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 hand	amod
35	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 looked	obl
36	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	39 left	cc
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 left	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 left	det
39	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hand	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 lay	punct
41	till	till	SCONJ	_	45 lay	mark
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 top	det
43	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 top	compound
44	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 lay	nsubj
45	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 looked	conj
46	straight	straight	ADV	_	45 lay	advmod
47	before	before	ADP	_	48 him	case
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 lay	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	man				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	climb	to-infinitive	man not said here	there			tree rules
3	burst	participle	man not said here			around man; forth property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around he=Location
4	think speech: other	past	man			of the giant's words	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	look	past				to the right hand nor the left; neither property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to hand=Theme
6	lie	past	the mountain top		before man	straight property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
7	storm		scoffs and jeers				nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent
8	word		the giant				nom word «communication 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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