The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 66

With these words he handed the Herd-boy a belt, and walking on in front he led him to a fountain where hundreds of Giants and Giantesses were assembled preparing to hold a wedding.

Who acts: leg · What happens: hand, walk on, lead, assemble, prepare, hold · To what, where: belt, Herd boy, front, BOY, fountain, hundreds

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leg), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 words	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 handed	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 handed	nsubj
5	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
7	Herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boy	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Herd	punct
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 handed	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 belt	det
11	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 handed	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 led	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 led	cc
14	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 led	csubj
15	on	on	ADP	_	14 walking	compound:prt
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 front	case
17	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 walking	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 led	nsubj
19	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 handed	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 led	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 fountain	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fountain	det
23	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 led	obl
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 assembled	advmod
25	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 assembled	nsubj:pass
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Giants	case
27	Giants	Giant	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 hundreds	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Giantesses	cc
29	Giantesses	Giantess	PROPN	Number=Plur	27 Giants	conj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 assembled	aux:pass
31	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 fountain	acl:relcl
32	preparing	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 assembled	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 hold	mark
34	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 preparing	xcomp
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 wedding	det
36	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hold	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 handed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hand	past	leg	a belt	the Herd boy		with this words	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent boy=Destination belt=Theme
2	walk on	gerund				front		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory
3	lead	past	leg	BOY		a fountain		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to fountain=Destination
4	assemble	past · passive		hundreds of Giants and Giantesses				vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
5	prepare	gerund						vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
6	hold not said to happen	to-infinitive		a wedding				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Theme

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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