More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 135
So saying he fell upon them, cut off their heads, and returned in triumph.
Who acts: Johnny · What happens: say, fall, cut off, return · To what, where: heads, triumph · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 fell | advcl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fell | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cut | punct |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fell | conj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 cut | compound:prt |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heads | nmod:poss |
| 11 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cut | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 returned | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 returned | cc |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fell | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 triumph | case |
| 16 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 returned | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Johnny not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | Johnny | upon giants = giant | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=Location | ||||
| 3 | cut off | infinitive | Johnny not said here | giants's heads | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | return | participle | Johnny not said here | triumph | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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