The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 56

But the mountain belonged to fierce and huge giants, who lived on it and traded there, and he had not sat long before he saw three of them striding towards him.

Who acts: mountain, fierce giants, Hunter, three · What happens: belong, live, trade, not sit, see, stride · To what, where: mountain, three

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountain, fierce giants, Hunter, three), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 belonged	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mountain	det
3	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 belonged	nsubj
4	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 giants	case
6	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 giants	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 huge	cc
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fierce	conj
9	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 belonged	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lived	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 lived	nsubj
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 giants	acl:relcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lived	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 traded	cc
16	traded	trade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lived	conj
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 traded	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sat	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sat	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sat	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sat	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 sat	advmod
23	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 belonged	conj
24	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 sat	advmod
25	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 saw	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 saw	nsubj
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sat	advcl
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 saw	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 three	nmod
31	striding	stride	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 saw	xcomp
32	towards	towards	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 striding	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 belonged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	belong	past	the mountain			to fierce giants	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	fierce giants		mountain		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location
3	trade	past	fierce giants not said here		there		vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not sit	past · perfect	Hunter			long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	see	past	Hunter	three of giants			tree rules
6	stride	gerund	three of giants not said here			towards Hunter	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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