The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 134

In one hand she held a sceptre, and in the other the imperial globe, and on either side of her stood two rows of halberdiers, each smaller than the other, from a seven-foot giant to the tiniest little dwarf no higher than my little finger.

Who acts: wife · What happens: hold, stand · To what, where: sceptre, one hand, two rows, side

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 hand	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hand	nummod
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 held	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 held	nsubj
5	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sceptre	det
7	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 held	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 globe	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 globe	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	15 globe	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 globe	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 globe	amod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 globe	det
14	imperial	imperial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 globe	amod
15	globe	globe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 held	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stood	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stood	cc
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 side	case
19	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	20 side	det
20	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stood	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 side	nmod
23	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 held	conj
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 rows	nummod
25	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stood	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 halberdiers	case
27	halberdiers	halberdier	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 rows	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 smaller	punct
29	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	30 smaller	det
30	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 rows	conj
31	than	than	ADP	_	33 other	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 other	det
33	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 smaller	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 giant	punct
35	from	from	ADP	_	40 giant	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 giant	det
37	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 foot	nummod
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 seven	punct
39	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 giant	compound
40	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stood	obl
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 tiniest	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 tiniest	det
43	tiniest	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 stood	advcl
44	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 higher	obl:unmarked
45	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 higher	amod
46	no	no	ADV	_	47 higher	advmod
47	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	43 tiniest	parataxis
48	than	than	ADP	_	51 finger	case
49	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 finger	nmod:poss
50	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 finger	amod
51	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 higher	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	wife	a sceptre		one hand		in the other imperial globe	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sceptre=Theme in hand=Location
2	stand	past	wife not said here	two rows of halberdiers		either side of wife		from a foot giant	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent row=Theme on side=Destination

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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