More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 16
The Childe raised his shining sword, and severed the head of his faithful hound.
Who acts: Childe · What happens: raise, sever · To what, where: shining sword, head
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Childe), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Childe | det |
| 2 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | nsubj |
| 3 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sword | nmod:poss |
| 5 | shining | shining | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sword | amod |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 severed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 severed | cc |
| 9 | severed | sever | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raised | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 head | det |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 severed | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 hound | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hound | nmod:poss |
| 14 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hound | amod |
| 15 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 head | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | the Childe | Childe's shining sword | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sever | past | the Childe not said here | the head of Childe's faithful hound | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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