Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 51

But the traveller heard it, and just as the princess slipped through the window into her bedroom, and the magician turned round to fly back to the mountain, he seized him by the long black beard, and with his sabre cut off the wicked conjuror's head just behind the shoulders, so that he could not even see who it was.

Who acts: traveller, princess, magician, sabre, farewell · What happens: hear, slip, turn round, fly back, seize, cut off · To what, where: farewell, window, traveller, head, shoulders · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (traveller, princess, magician, sabre), 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 heard	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 traveller	det
3	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 slipped	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 slipped	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	11 princess	advmod
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 princess	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slipped	nsubj
12	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
13	through	through	ADP	_	15 window	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 window	det
15	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slipped	obl
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 bedroom	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 bedroom	nmod:poss
18	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slipped	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 turned	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 turned	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 magician	det
22	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turned	nsubj
23	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
24	round	round	ADV	_	23 turned	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 fly	mark
26	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 turned	xcomp
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 fly	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 mountain	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mountain	det
30	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fly	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 seized	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 seized	nsubj
33	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 seized	obj
35	by	by	ADP	_	39 beard	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 beard	det
37	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 beard	amod
38	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 beard	amod
39	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seized	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 sabre	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 sabre	cc
42	with	with	ADP	_	44 sabre	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 sabre	nmod:poss
44	sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	conj
45	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 sabre	acl
46	off	off	ADP	_	51 head	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 conjuror	det
48	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 conjuror	amod
49	conjuror	conjuror	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 head	nmod:poss
50	's	's	PART	_	49 conjuror	case
51	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 cut	obl
52	just	just	ADV	_	55 shoulders	advmod
53	behind	behind	ADP	_	55 shoulders	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 shoulders	det
55	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 cut	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 see	punct
57	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	63 see	mark
58	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 so	fixed
59	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 see	nsubj
60	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 see	aux
61	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	63 see	advmod
62	even	even	ADV	_	63 see	advmod
63	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 heard	conj
64	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	63 see	ccomp
65	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 who	nsubj
66	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 who	cop
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the traveller	farewell			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	slip	past	the princess		the window	into princess's bedroom	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	turn round	past	the magician			round property	tree rules
4	fly back	to-infinitive	the magician not said here			to the mountain result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mountain=Result
5	seize	past	magician	traveller		by the long black beard	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	cut off	participle	magician's sabre not said here	the wicked conjuror's head	the shoulders		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
7	not see	could	magician				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	is a	past	farewell				tree rules

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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