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title: Sigurd lay very still for a long while, and was just thinking it was… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Sigurd lay very still for a long while, and was just thinking it was no good staying there any more, when he felt the floor shake under him as if there were an earthquake, and peeping out he saw a great giantess wading along ankle deep through the ground and ploughing it up as she walked. Who acts: 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 6

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Sigurd lay very still for a long while, and was just thinking it was no good staying there any more, when he felt the floor shake under him as if there were an earthquake, and peeping out he saw a great giantess wading along ankle deep through the ground and ploughing it up as she walked.

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**Who acts:** Sigurd, bade, floor, earthquake, great giantess · **What happens:** lie, think, be, stay, feel, shake · **To what, where:** floor, great giantess, ground, bade · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sigurd, bade, floor, earthquake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:33:6
# text = Sigurd lay very still for a long while, and was just thinking it was no good staying there any more, when he felt the floor shake under him as if there were an earthquake, and peeping out he saw a great giantess wading along ankle deep through the ground and ploughing it up as she walked.
1	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	_
18	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
20	any	any	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
29	under	under	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	34	expl	_	_
34	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	peeping	peep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	csubj	_	_
40	out	out	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	giantess	giantess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
46	wading	wade	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	45	acl	_	_
47	along	along	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	ankle	ankle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
49	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
50	through	through	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	ploughing	plough	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	46	conj	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	_
56	up	up	ADP	RP	_	54	compound:prt	_	_
57	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
58	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
59	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | Sigurd |  |  |  | still; while |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | Sigurd *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | bade |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stay** | gerund | Sigurd *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **feel** | past | Sigurd | the floor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **shake** | infinitive | the floor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | under Sigurd | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under he=Location |
| 7 | **be** | past | a earthquake |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **peep out** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **see** | past | Sigurd | a great giantess |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giantess=Stimulus |
| 10 | **wade** | gerund | a great giantess *not said here* |  |  | the ground |  | along ankle; deep *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along ankle=Trajectory |
| 11 | **plough up** | gerund | a great giantess *not said here* | bade |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent it=Initial\_Location |
| 12 | **walk** | past | earthquake |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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