The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 17
Instantly the sword darted forth and cut off the heads of everyone but the Sultan, and then went quietly back to its scabbard.
Who acts: sword · What happens: dart, cut off, go back · To what, where: heads
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword), 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 4 darted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sword | det |
| 3 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 darted | nsubj |
| 4 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 darted | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cut | cc |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 darted | conj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 heads | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 heads | det |
| 10 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cut | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 everyone | case |
| 12 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 heads | nmod |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 Sultan | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Sultan | det |
| 15 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 everyone | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 went | advmod |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 darted | conj |
| 20 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 scabbard | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 scabbard | nmod:poss |
| 24 | scabbard | scabbard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 darted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dart | past | the sword | forth, instantly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut off | participle | the sword not said here | the heads of everyone | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | go back | past | the sword not said here | then | to Sultan's scabbard result; quietly property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to scabbard=Result |
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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