More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 109
He brought his hand down on them with force and killed a goodly number of them.
Who acts: Johnny · What happens: bring down, kill · To what, where: hand, goodly number
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Johnny), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 brought | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 force | case |
| 9 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 killed | cc |
| 11 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brought | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 number | det |
| 13 | goodly | goodly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 number | amod |
| 14 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 killed | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 number | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring down | past | Johnny | Johnny's hand | on flies = fly; with force | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on they=Destination | |||
| 2 | kill | past | Johnny not said here | a goodly number of flies | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme |
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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