The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 25

When the Giant came across him, he stood still and looked at the Prince for a little; then he took him up in his arms and carried him home to his house, and was exceedingly kind to him.

Who acts: Giant, Prince · What happens: come, stand, look, take up, carry, be · To what, where: forest, arms, Prince, house

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 (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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Giant	det
3	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stood	advcl
5	across	across	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stood	nsubj
9	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	still	still	ADV	_	9 stood	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 looked	cc
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stood	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 Prince	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Prince	det
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 looked	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 little	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 little	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 looked	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 took	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 took	nsubj
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stood	parataxis
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 took	obj
24	up	up	ADP	_	22 took	compound:prt
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 arms	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 arms	nmod:poss
27	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 took	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 carried	cc
29	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 took	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 carried	obj
31	home	home	ADV	_	29 carried	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 house	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 house	nmod:poss
34	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 carried	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 kind	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 kind	cc
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 kind	cop
38	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	39 kind	advmod
39	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stood	conj
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 kind	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Giant					across Prince	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across he=Initial_Location
2	stand	past	Prince				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	past	Prince not said here					at the Prince; for a little	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent at prince=Location for little=Theme
4	take up	past	Prince	forest		Prince's arms	then		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in arm=Location
5	carry	past	Prince not said here	Prince		Prince's house		home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to house=Destination
6	is	past	Prince not said here		Prince			exceedingly, kind property	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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