The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 57

The mound was all ready now, and the Giant laid in it, and into it Hadvor also had to go without being allowed to make any defence.

Who acts: mound · What happens: be, lay, have, go, allow, make · To what, where: Giant, mound, Hadvor, defence

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mound), 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 mound	det
2	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ready	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ready	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 ready	advmod
5	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 ready	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 laid	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 laid	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Giant	det
10	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 laid	obl:unmarked
11	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ready	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 laid	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 Hadvor	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 Hadvor	nsubj
18	Hadvor	Hadvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 had	obl
19	also	also	ADV	_	20 had	advmod
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ready	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 go	mark
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 had	xcomp
23	without	without	SCONJ	_	25 allowed	mark
24	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 allowed	aux:pass
25	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 go	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 make	mark
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 allowed	xcomp
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 defence	det
29	defence	defence	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 make	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the mound			now	all, ready property	tree rules
2	lay	participle	the mound not said here	the Giant	mound			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in it=Destination
3	have	past			Hadvor			tree rules
4	go	to-infinitive						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	allow	gerund · passive						vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality
6	make not said to happen	to-infinitive		any defence				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset defence=Product

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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