The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 92
And he gave the hyena two great blows, which stretched him dead in a moment.
Who acts: lion, two great blows · What happens: give, stretch · To what, where: hyena, lion
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion, two great blows), 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 gave | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hyena | det |
| 5 | hyena | hyena | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 blows | nummod |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 blows | amod |
| 8 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stretched | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 stretched | nsubj |
| 11 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 blows | acl:relcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stretched | obj |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stretched | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 moment | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 moment | det |
| 16 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stretched | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | lion | the hyena | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent hyena=Recipient blow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stretch | past | two great blows | lion | moment | dead property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=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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