The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 109

When the giant saw the trick which had been played on him he said to Petru.

Who acts: giant · What happens: see, play, say · To what, where: trick, Petru · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trick	det
6	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 played	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 played	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 played	aux:pass
10	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 trick	acl:relcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 played	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Petru	case
16	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the giant	the trick			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trick=Stimulus
2	play	past · perfect · passive		the trick		on giant	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	giant		Petru		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to petru=Recipient

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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