The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 74
Then, seizing the monster by the neck, he dashed the remaining heads against the rock.
Who acts: monster · What happens: seize, dash · To what, where: monster, remaining heads
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 (monster), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 seizing | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 seizing | punct |
| 3 | seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 dashed | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 monster | det |
| 5 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seizing | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 neck | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 neck | det |
| 8 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seizing | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 seizing | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dashed | nsubj |
| 11 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 heads | det |
| 13 | remaining | remaining | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 heads | amod |
| 14 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dashed | obj |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 17 rock | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rock | det |
| 17 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dashed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 dashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | gerund | monster not said here | the monster | then | by the neck | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=Theme | ||
| 2 | dash | past | monster | the remaining heads | against the rock | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Instrument against rock=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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