The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 81

So the Herd-boy held on to the Giant, and in a few moments he found himself on the earth once more, but the Giant had vanished.

Who acts: Herd boy, BOY, Giant · What happens: hold on, find, vanish · To what, where: BOY, earth

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 (Herd boy, BOY, 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	_	6 held	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
3	Herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boy	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Herd	punct
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 held	nsubj
6	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 held	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Giant	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Giant	det
10	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 held	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 found	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 found	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 moments	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 moments	det
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 moments	amod
16	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 found	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 found	nsubj
18	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 held	parataxis
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 found	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 earth	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 earth	det
22	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 found	obl
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 more	advmod
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 found	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 vanished	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 vanished	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Giant	det
28	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 vanished	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 vanished	aux
30	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 held	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold on	participle	the Herd boy				to the Giant	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	BOY	BOY	the earth	moment		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
3	vanish	past · perfect	the Giant					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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