The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 14
But had Sigurd struck the stone without turning round, the hail would have driven right into his face and killed him instead.
Who acts: Sigurd · What happens: strike, turn round, drive, kill · To what, where: stone, hail, face, Sigurd
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sigurd), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 struck | cc |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 struck | aux |
| 3 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | nsubj |
| 4 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stone | det |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | obj |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 turning | mark |
| 8 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 struck | advcl |
| 9 | round | round | ADV | _ | 8 turning | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 driven | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hail | det |
| 12 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 driven | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 driven | aux |
| 15 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 struck | conj |
| 16 | right | right | ADV | _ | 19 face | advmod |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 face | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 face | nmod:poss |
| 19 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 driven | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 killed | cc |
| 21 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 driven | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 killed | obj |
| 23 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 21 killed | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | Sigurd | the stone | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient | ||||
| 2 | turn round | gerund | Sigurd not said here | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drive | would · perfect · passive | the hail | Sigurd's face | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme into face=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | kill | past | Sigurd | instead property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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