The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 83

‘There are other things easier than that,’ said she, ‘for the Giant that was buried will be waiting for you, and will attack you on the way, as he has turned himself into a big whale.

Who acts: Hadvor, Hermod · What happens: be, say, bury, wait, attack, turn · To what, where: you, way, Hermod · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Hadvor, Hermod), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 are	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 are	expl
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 easier	cop
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 are	nsubj
6	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 said	ccomp
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 easier	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 easier	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 easier	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Giant	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 Giant	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 Giant	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Giant	det
17	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 waiting	aux
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 buried	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 buried	aux:pass
20	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 Giant	acl:relcl
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 waiting	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 waiting	aux
23	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 waiting	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 attack	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 attack	cc
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 attack	aux
29	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	conj
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 attack	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 way	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 way	det
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 attack	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 turned	punct
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 turned	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 turned	nsubj
37	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 turned	aux
38	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 attack	advcl
39	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 turned	obj
40	into	into	ADP	_	43 whale	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 whale	det
42	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 whale	amod
43	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 turned	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present				than that; easy property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Hadvor				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bury	past · passive					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	wait	future · progressive				for you	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	attack	future	Hadvor not said here	you	the way		vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
6	turn	present · perfect	Hermod	Hermod		into a big whale result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into whale=Result

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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