The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 2

Bang! went Niels’ gun, and the bullet struck the handle of the fork so hard that the point went into the giant’s chin, instead of his mouth.

Who acts: gun, bullet, point · What happens: go, strike · To what, where: handle, chin

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gun, bullet, point), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2435:2626): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bang	bang	INTJ	_	3 went	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Bang	punct
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Niels	Niels	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gun	nmod:poss
5	’	's	PART	_	4 Niels	case
6	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 struck	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 struck	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bullet	det
10	bullet	bullet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 struck	nsubj
11	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 handle	det
13	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 struck	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 fork	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fork	det
16	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 handle	nmod
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 hard	advmod
18	hard	hard	ADV	_	11 struck	advmod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 went	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 point	det
21	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hard	advcl
23	into	into	ADP	_	27 chin	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 giant	det
25	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 chin	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 giant	case
27	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 mouth	punct
29	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	32 mouth	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	29 instead	fixed
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mouth	nmod:poss
32	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Niels's gun				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	strike	past	the bullet	the handle of the fork		hard property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handle=Patient
3	go	past	the point		the giant's chin	instead point's mouth	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into chin=Initial_Location

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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