The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 41
At these words the Giant began to howl and lament.
Who acts: Giant · What happens: begin, howl, lament · To what, where: words
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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 began | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Giant | det |
| 5 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 began | nsubj |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 howl | mark |
| 8 | howl | howl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 began | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lament | cc |
| 10 | lament | lament | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 howl | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the Giant | this words | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | howl | to-infinitive | the Giant not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lament | infinitive | the Giant not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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