The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 85
For a long time the giant would not hear of it, but in the end he gave in, and told her exactly how it must all be done.
Who acts: giant, prince · What happens: not hear, give in, tell, do · To what, where: end, giant, lock · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (giant, prince), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hear | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 giant | det |
| 6 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hear | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 hear | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 hear | advmod |
| 9 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hear | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hear | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 gave | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 told | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 told | cc |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 gave | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 told | iobj |
| 24 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 30 done | advmod |
| 25 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 done | advmod |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 done | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 done | aux |
| 28 | all | all | ADV | _ | 30 done | advmod |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 done | aux:pass |
| 30 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 told | ccomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | would | the giant | time | of lock | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | give in | past | prince | in the end | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | prince not said here | giant | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do | must · passive | lock | all, exactly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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