The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 126
And Manus bent the sword thrice across his knee but he could not break it.
Who acts: Manus · What happens: bend, not break · To what, where: sword thrice, knee, thrice
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Manus), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 bent | cc |
| 2 | Manus | Manus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bent | nsubj |
| 3 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thrice | det |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thrice | compound |
| 6 | thrice | thrice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bent | obj |
| 7 | across | across | ADP | _ | 9 knee | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 knee | nmod:poss |
| 9 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bent | obl |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 break | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 break | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 break | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 break | advmod |
| 14 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bent | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 break | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | past | Manus | the sword thrice | Manus's knee | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent thrice=Material | |||
| 2 | not break | could | Manus | thrice | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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 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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