The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 4

She just gave one look at the floor of the cave, then dealt him a blow on the head which cracked his skull, and there was an end of him.

Who acts: punishment, blow, end · What happens: give, deal, crack, be · To what, where: one look, floor, blow, man, skull

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (punishment, blow, end), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 gave	advmod
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 look	nummod
5	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 floor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 floor	det
8	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 cave	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cave	det
11	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 floor	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dealt	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 dealt	advmod
14	dealt	deal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 dealt	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 blow	det
17	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dealt	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 head	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 head	det
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blow	nmod
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 cracked	nsubj
22	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 blow	acl:relcl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 skull	nmod:poss
24	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cracked	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 was	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 was	cc
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 was	expl
28	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	parataxis
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 end	det
30	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 was	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 end	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	give	past	punishment	one look		the floor of the cave		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent look=Theme at floor=Asset
2	deal	past	punishment not said here	a blow	man		then	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient blow=Theme
3	crack	past	a blow	man's skull				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skull=Theme
4	be	past	a end of man			there		vn exist-47.1 «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: «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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