The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 67

They danced and played different games till midnight; then one of the Giants tore up a plant by its roots, and all the Giants and Giantesses made themselves so thin that they disappeared into the earth through the hole made by the uprooting of the plant.

Who acts: hundreds, one Giants, Giants · What happens: dance, play, tore up, make, disappear · To what, where: different games, plant, hundreds, earth, hole

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 (hundreds, one Giants, Giants), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 danced	nsubj
2	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 played	cc
4	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 danced	conj
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 games	amod
6	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 played	obj
7	till	till	ADP	_	8 midnight	case
8	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 played	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 tore	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 one	advmod
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 Giants	nummod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Giants	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Giants	det
14	Giants	Giant	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 tore	nsubj
15	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 danced	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 tore	compound:prt
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 plant	det
18	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tore	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 roots	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 roots	nmod:poss
21	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tore	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 made	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 made	cc
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 Giants	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Giants	det
26	Giants	Giant	PROPN	Number=Plur	29 made	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 made	cc
28	Giantesses	giantess	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 made	nsubj
29	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 danced	conj
30	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 made	obj
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 thin	advmod
32	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 made	xcomp
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 disappeared	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 disappeared	nsubj
35	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 thin	advcl
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 earth	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 earth	det
38	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 disappeared	obl
39	through	through	ADP	_	41 hole	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 hole	det
41	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 earth	nmod
42	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 hole	acl
43	by	by	ADP	_	45 uprooting	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 uprooting	det
45	uprooting	uprooting	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 made	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 plant	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 plant	det
48	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 uprooting	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 danced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past	hundreds = hundred					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	play	past	hundreds = hundred not said here	different games		midnight		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
3	tore up	past	the one Giants	a plant			by plant's roots	tree rules
4	make	past	all Giants	hundreds = hundred			thin property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Product
5	disappear	past	hundreds = hundred		the earth through the hole			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	make	participle		the hole not said here			by the uprooting of the plant	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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