The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 72

Paul was not fond of boulders, but he took a wooden knife and cut one in two, then he snatched up both halves in his hands and threw them with all his strength at the dragon, so that two out of the six heads were smashed in.

Who acts: Paul · What happens: not be, take, cut, snatch up, throw, smash in · To what, where: wooden knife, one, two, halves, hands, boulders

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paul), 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	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fond	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fond	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 fond	advmod
4	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 boulders	case
6	boulders	boulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fond	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 took	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fond	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 knife	det
12	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 knife	amod
13	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cut	cc
15	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 cut	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 two	case
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 one	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 snatched	punct
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 snatched	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 snatched	nsubj
22	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cut	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 snatched	compound:prt
24	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	25 halves	det
25	halves	half	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 snatched	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 hands	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hands	nmod:poss
28	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 snatched	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 threw	cc
30	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cut	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 threw	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 strength	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 strength	det:predet
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 strength	nmod:poss
35	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 threw	obl
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 dragon	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 dragon	det
38	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 threw	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 two	punct
40	so	so	SCONJ	_	42 two	case
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 so	fixed
42	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 cut	obl
43	out	out	ADP	_	49 smashed	mark
44	of	of	ADP	_	47 heads	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 heads	det
46	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 heads	nummod
47	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 smashed	obl
48	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 smashed	aux:pass
49	smashed	smash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 two	acl
50	in	in	ADP	_	49 smashed	compound:prt
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Paul				of boulders; fond property	tree rules
2	take	past	Paul	a wooden knife				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
3	cut	past	Paul not said here	one	two		so two	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product
4	snatch up	past	Paul	both halves	Paul's hands	then		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme
5	throw	past	Paul not said here	boulders = boulder			with Paul's strength; at the dragon	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme at dragon=Destination
6	smash in	past · passive					of the six heads	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: of head=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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