The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 5
Now the captain had wound round his neck the shawl of his lost wife, and the stroke of the prince’s sword fell harmless.
Who acts: captain, stroke · What happens: woun, lose, fall, stroke · To what, where: shawl, 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 (captain, stroke), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 wound | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 captain | det |
| 3 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wound | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wound | aux |
| 5 | wound | woun | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 neck | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 neck | nmod:poss |
| 8 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wound | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shawl | det |
| 10 | shawl | shawl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wound | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wife | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 wife | amod |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shawl | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fell | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fell | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stroke | det |
| 18 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fell | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sword | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 prince | det |
| 21 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sword | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 prince | case |
| 23 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stroke | nmod |
| 24 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wound | conj |
| 25 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fell | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | woun | past · perfect | the captain | the shawl of captain's lost wife | now | round captain's neck | tree rules | ||
| 2 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | fall | past | the stroke of the prince's sword | harmless property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stroke | the prince's sword | nom 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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