The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 87

He had hardly gone many steps when he stumbled over a huge giant, who had been lulled to sleep by the music.

Who acts: Petru · What happens: go, stumble, lull, sleep · To what, where: many steps, huge 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 (Petru), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 steps	amod
6	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gone	obj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 stumbled	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stumbled	nsubj
9	stumbled	stumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	advcl
10	over	over	ADP	_	13 giant	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 giant	det
12	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 giant	amod
13	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stumbled	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lulled	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 lulled	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lulled	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 lulled	aux:pass
18	lulled	lull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 giant	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 sleep	mark
20	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 lulled	advcl
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 music	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 music	det
23	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sleep	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	Petru	many steps	hardly property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme
2	stumble	past	Petru		over a huge giant	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over giant=Trajectory
3	lull	past · perfect · passive		a huge giant		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	sleep	to-infinitive			by the music	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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