The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 90

Then the hero flung his iron hammer at Chi- idea-moto, and, striking him, it knocked him helpless; so Makoma placed him in the sack, Woro-nowu, with the other great men that he had overcome.

Who acts: hero, hammer, Makoma · What happens: fling, strike, knock, place, overcome · To what, where: iron hammer, Chi idea moto, hero, sack, other great men

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero, hammer, Makoma), 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	4 flung	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hero	det
3	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flung	nsubj
4	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hammer	nmod:poss
6	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hammer	compound
7	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flung	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	13 moto	case
9	Chi	Chi	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 moto	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Chi	punct
11	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 moto	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 idea	punct
13	moto	moto	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flung	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 striking	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 striking	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 striking	punct
17	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 flung	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 striking	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 knocked	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 knocked	nsubj
21	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flung	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 knocked	obj
23	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 knocked	xcomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 placed	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 placed	advmod
26	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 placed	nsubj
27	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flung	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 placed	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 sack	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sack	det
31	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 placed	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Woro	punct
33	Woro	Woro	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 sack	appos
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 nowu	punct
35	nowu	nowu	X	Foreign=Yes	33 Woro	dep
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 men	punct
37	with	with	ADP	_	41 men	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 men	det
39	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 men	amod
40	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 men	amod
41	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 placed	obl
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 overcome	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 overcome	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 overcome	aux
45	overcome	overcome	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 men	acl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fling	past	the hero	hero's iron hammer	Chi idea moto	then		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme at moto=Destination
2	strike	gerund	the hero not said here	hero				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument
3	knock	past	hammer	hero			helpless property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	place	past	Makoma	hero	the sack		with the other great men	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in sack=Destination
5	overcome	past · perfect	hero	the other great men not said here				vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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