The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 104
After a while, he determined to take the risk, and strode back to the sleeping giant.
Who acts: care · What happens: determine, take, stride back · To what, where: risk, sleeping giant
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (care), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 determined | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 while | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 determined | nsubj |
| 6 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 determined | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 risk | det |
| 10 | risk | risk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 strode | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 strode | cc |
| 13 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 determined | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 strode | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 giant | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 giant | det |
| 17 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 giant | compound |
| 18 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 strode | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | care | while | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | care not said here | the risk | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent risk=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stride back | past | care not said here | the sleeping giant | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to giant=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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