More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 50
At last Tom gave him a blow on the side of his head which felled him.
Who acts: blow · What happens: give, fell · To what, where: blow, Tom, last Tom
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blow), 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 Tom | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Tom | amod |
| 3 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obl |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 blow | det |
| 7 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 side | det |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blow | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 side | nmod |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 felled | nsubj |
| 15 | felled | fell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 blow | acl:relcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 felled | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | a blow | Tom | last Tom | on the side of Tom's head | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient blow=Theme at tom=Asset | ||
| 2 | fell | past | a blow | Tom | tree rules |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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