The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 106
The giant woke and stretched out his hand to pick up Petru, just as we should catch a fly.
Who acts: giant, we · What happens: wake, stretch out, pick up, catch · To what, where: hand, Petru, fly
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 (giant, we), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stretched | cc |
| 5 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 woke | conj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 stretched | compound:prt |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stretched | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 pick | mark |
| 10 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stretched | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 pick | compound:prt |
| 12 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 pick | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 catch | punct |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 catch | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 catch | mark |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 catch | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 catch | aux |
| 18 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 woke | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fly | det |
| 20 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 catch | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | the giant | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | stretch out | participle | the giant not said here | giant's hand | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pick up | to-infinitive | the giant not said here | Petru | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petru=Topic | ||||
| 4 | catch | should | we | a fly | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme |
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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