The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 61
The Giant’s dwelling, indeed, was right under the Palace, and the terrible shakings must have been caused by him in his death-throes.
Who acts: Giant · What happens: dwell, be, cause · To what, where: Palace, terrible shakings, death throes
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Giant | det |
| 2 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ’s | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 ’s | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 indeed | punct |
| 6 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 dwelling | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 right | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 right | cop |
| 9 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ’s | conj |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 Palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Palace | det |
| 12 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 right | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 caused | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 caused | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shakings | det |
| 16 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 shakings | amod |
| 17 | shakings | shaking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 caused | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 caused | aux |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 caused | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 caused | aux:pass |
| 21 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 right | parataxis |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 caused | obl:agent |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 throes | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 throes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 throes | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 death | punct |
| 28 | throes | throe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 caused | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’s | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | gerund | indeed property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the Palace | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cause | must · perfect · passive | Giant | the terrible shakings | shaking's death throes | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient |
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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