The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 24

Then he saw a Giant approaching, dragging a sledge loaded with wood, and making straight for him, so that he could see nothing for it but to lie down just where he was.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: see, drag, load, make, lie down, be · To what, where: Giant approaching, sledge, nothing

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 saw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 approaching	det
5	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 approaching	amod
6	approaching	approaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dragging	punct
8	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 saw	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sledge	det
10	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dragging	obj
11	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sledge	acl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 wood	case
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 loaded	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 making	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 making	cc
16	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 saw	advcl
17	straight	straight	ADV	_	16 making	advmod
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 making	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
21	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	25 see	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 so	fixed
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 see	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saw	conj
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 see	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 nothing	nmod
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 lie	cc
30	to	to	PART	_	31 lie	mark
31	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 see	conj
32	down	down	ADP	_	31 lie	compound:prt
33	just	just	ADV	_	36 was	advmod
34	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 was	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 was	nsubj
36	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 lie	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Prince	a Giant approaching	then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer approaching=Stimulus
2	drag	gerund	Prince not said here	a sledge			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sledge=Theme
3	load	participle		a sledge not said here		with wood	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wood=Theme
4	make	gerund	Prince not said here			for Prince; straight property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary
5	see	could	Prince	nothing		for wood	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
6	lie down	to-infinitive	Prince not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	be	past	Prince				vn exist-47.1 «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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