The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 115

When his hands were freed, the giant flung himself upon Petru, hoping to crush him by his weight.

Who acts: giant · What happens: free, fling, hope, crush · To what, where: hands, 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 (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	SCONJ	_	5 freed	mark
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hands	nmod:poss
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 freed	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 freed	aux:pass
5	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 flung	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 giant	det
8	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flung	nsubj
9	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 freed	conj
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 flung	obj
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 Petru	case
12	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 flung	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hoping	punct
14	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 flung	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 crush	mark
16	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 hoping	xcomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 crush	obj
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 weight	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 weight	nmod:poss
20	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 crush	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 freed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	free	past · passive		giant's hands		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source
2	fling	past	the giant	giant	upon Petru	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme upon petru=Destination
3	hope	gerund	the giant not said here			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	crush not said to happen	to-infinitive	the giant not said here	giant	by giant's weight	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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