The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 38
The Prince turned sharply round and to his horror saw a huge Giant approaching with mighty strides, crying fiercely--
Who acts: Prince · What happens: turn, see, approach, cry
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 5 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 horror | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 horror | nmod:poss |
| 9 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obl |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 huge | det |
| 12 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 saw | xcomp |
| 13 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 approaching | amod |
| 14 | approaching | approach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 huge | advcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 strides | case |
| 16 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 strides | amod |
| 17 | strides | stride | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 approaching | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 crying | punct |
| 19 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 approaching | conj |
| 20 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 19 crying | advmod |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the Prince | round, sharply property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the Prince not said here | to Prince's horror; huge property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | approach | gerund | the Prince not said here | with mighty strides | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with stride=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | gerund | the Prince not said here | fiercely property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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