The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 20
The giant then hastily rejoined his prey, and, seizing her in his arms, he plunged her into the sea.
Who acts: giant, Prince · What happens: rejoin, seize, plunge · To what, where: prey, giant, arms, sea
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 giant | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rejoined | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 rejoined | advmod |
| 4 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 5 rejoined | advmod |
| 5 | rejoined | rejoin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 prey | nmod:poss |
| 7 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rejoined | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 plunged | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 plunged | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seizing | punct |
| 11 | seizing | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 plunged | ccomp |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seizing | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 arms | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 arms | nmod:poss |
| 15 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 seizing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seizing | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 plunged | nsubj |
| 18 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rejoined | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 plunged | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 sea | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sea | det |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 plunged | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rejoined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoin | past | the giant | Prince's prey | then | hastily property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Patient | ||
| 2 | seize | gerund | Prince not said here | giant | Prince's arms | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | plunge | past | Prince | giant | the sea | tree rules |
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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