The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 38

Then there came up through the floor of the room a three-headed Giant with a trough full of meat, who saluted her as his sister and set down the trough before her.

Who acts: meat · What happens: come up, salute, set down · To what, where: floor, Queen, trough

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meat), 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 came	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 came	expl
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 floor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 floor	det
7	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 room	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 room	det
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 floor	nmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 Giant	det
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 headed	nummod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 three	punct
14	headed	headed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Giant	amod
15	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 room	acl:relcl
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 trough	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 trough	det
18	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Giant	obl
19	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 trough	amod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 meat	case
21	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 full	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saluted	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 saluted	nsubj
24	saluted	salute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 meat	acl:relcl
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saluted	obj
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 sister	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 sister	nmod:poss
28	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 saluted	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 set	cc
30	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
31	down	down	ADP	_	30 set	compound:prt
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 trough	det
33	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 set	obj
34	before	before	ADP	_	35 her	case
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 set	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past			the floor of the room; there	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through floor=Initial_Location
2	salute	past	meat	Queen			as son's sister	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme as sister=Attribute
3	set down	infinitive		the trough		before Queen		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trough=Theme before she=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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