The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 30
But at last the time came when the giant took it into his head to amuse himself by arranging fights between some of his captives.
Who acts: last, giant · What happens: come, take, amuse, arrange · To what, where: use, head, Prince, fights, some
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 (last, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 came | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 last | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 took | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 giant | det |
| 9 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 amuse | mark |
| 16 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 took | advcl |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 amuse | obj |
| 18 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 19 arranging | mark |
| 19 | arranging | arrange | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 amuse | advcl |
| 20 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 arranging | obj |
| 21 | between | between | ADP | _ | 22 some | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 arranging | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 captives | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 captives | nmod:poss |
| 25 | captives | captive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 some | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | last | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | the giant | use | Prince's head | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into head=Destination | |||
| 3 | amuse | to-infinitive | the giant not said here | Prince | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | arrange | gerund | the giant not said here | fights | some | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fight=Theme between some=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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