The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 96

And the giant answered, ‘Yes, they have passed by, but they never came back, and by this I know that the spell has fallen upon them.’

Who acts: giant, stones, I, spell · What happens: answer, pass by, not come back, know, fall · To what, where: stones · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (giant, stones, I, spell), 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 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 passed	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 passed	punct
7	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	11 passed	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Yes	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 passed	nsubj:pass
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 passed	aux
11	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 answered	ccomp
12	by	by	ADP	_	11 passed	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 came	advmod
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 passed	advcl
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 know	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 know	cc
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 this	case
22	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 know	obl
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 know	nsubj
24	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	parataxis
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 fallen	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 spell	det
27	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fallen	nsubj
28	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 fallen	aux
29	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 know	ccomp
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 fallen	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the giant			tree rules
2	pass by	present · perfect · passive		stones = stone		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
3	not come back	past	stones = stone			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	know	present	I		by this	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	fall	present · perfect	the spell		upon stones = stone	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=Location

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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