The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 75
So the maiden departed and climbed up the mountain, but before she reached the top the giant heard her footsteps, and rushed out breathing fire and flame, having a sword in one hand and a club in the other.
Who acts: maiden, girl, giant · What happens: depart, climb up, reach, hear, rush out, breathe · To what, where: mountain, top, footsteps, fire, sword, one hand
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, girl, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 departed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maiden | det |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 departed | nsubj |
| 4 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 climbed | cc |
| 6 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 departed | conj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 climbed | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountain | det |
| 9 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 climbed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 heard | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 heard | cc |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 reached | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 reached | nsubj |
| 14 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 heard | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 top | det |
| 16 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 giant | det |
| 18 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heard | nsubj |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 departed | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 footsteps | nmod:poss |
| 21 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 heard | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rushed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 rushed | cc |
| 24 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 heard | parataxis |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 rushed | compound:prt |
| 26 | breathing | breathe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 rushed | advcl |
| 27 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 breathing | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 flame | cc |
| 29 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fire | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 having | punct |
| 31 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 breathing | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 sword | det |
| 33 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 having | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 hand | case |
| 35 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 hand | nummod |
| 36 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 having | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 club | cc |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 club | det |
| 39 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hand | conj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 other | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 other | det |
| 42 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 club | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 departed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | past | the maiden | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | climb up | past | the maiden not said here | the mountain | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mountain=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | girl | the top | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | the giant | girl's footsteps | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer footstep=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | rush out | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | breathe | gerund | fire and flame | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | |||||
| 7 | have | gerund | a sword | one hand and a club in the other | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient |
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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