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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 1

The man who stood nearest jumped across, but he had no time to give the call which the captain had ordered, for with one swift, silent stroke of the prince’s sword, his head rolled into a corner.

Who acts: man, nearest, captain, head · What happens: stand, jump, have, give, order, roll · To what, where: call, corner, sword

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, nearest, captain, head), 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

detnsubjnsubjnsubjconjadvmodpunctccnsubjconjdetobjmarkacldetobjobjdetnsubjauxacl:relclpunctcasecasenummodoblpunctamodconjcasedetnmod:posscasenmodpunctnmod:possnsubjparataxiscasedetoblpunctrootTheDETmanNOUNwhoPRONstoodVERBnearestADJjumpedVERBacrossADV,PUNCTbutCCONJhePRONhadVERBnoDETtimeNOUNtoPARTgiveVERBtheDETcallNOUNwhichPRONtheDETcaptainNOUNhadAUXorderedVERB,PUNCTforADPwithADPoneNUMswiftNOUN,PUNCTsilentADJstrokeNOUNofADPtheDETprinceNOUN’sPARTswordNOUN,PUNCThisPRONheadNOUNrolledVERBintoADPaDETcornerNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 mandet
2manmanNOUNNumber=Sing4 stoodnsubj
3whowhoPRONPronType=Rel4 stoodnsubj
4stoodstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5nearestnearADJDegree=Sup6 jumpednsubj
6jumpedjumpVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 stoodconj
7acrossacrossADV_6 jumpedadvmod
8,,PUNCT_11 hadpunct
9butbutCCONJ_11 hadcc
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 hadnsubj
11hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 stoodconj
12nonoDETPronType=Neg13 timedet
13timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing11 hadobj
14totoPART_15 givemark
15givegiveVERBVerbForm=Inf13 timeacl
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 calldet
17callcallNOUNNumber=Sing15 giveobj
18whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel22 orderedobj
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 captaindet
20captaincaptainNOUNNumber=Sing22 orderednsubj
21hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 orderedaux
22orderedorderVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part17 callacl:relcl
23,,PUNCT_27 swiftpunct
24forforADP_27 swiftcase
25withwithADP_27 swiftcase
26oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card27 swiftnummod
27swiftswiftNOUNNumber=Sing11 hadobl
28,,PUNCT_30 strokepunct
29silentsilentADJDegree=Pos30 strokeamod
30strokestrokeNOUNNumber=Sing27 swiftconj
31ofofADP_35 swordcase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 princedet
33princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing35 swordnmod:poss
34’s'sPART_33 princecase
35swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing30 strokenmod
36,,PUNCT_39 rolledpunct
37hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs38 headnmod:poss
38headheadNOUNNumber=Sing39 rollednsubj
39rolledrollVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 stoodparataxis
40intointoADP_42 cornercase
41aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art42 cornerdet
42cornercornerNOUNNumber=Sing39 rolledobl
43..PUNCT_4 stoodpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1standpastthe manvn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2jumppastnearestacross propertyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3havepastmantimefor one swift and silent stroke of the prince's swordvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4giveto-infinitiveman not said herethe callvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme
5orderpast · perfectthe captainthe callvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
6rollpastcaptain's heada cornervn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into corner=Destination
7strokethe prince's swordnom stroke «act transitive»: of=patient

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: «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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