The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 32

Guard thyself!' and bending suddenly he seized the hero in his hands and dashed him upon the ground.

Who acts: Guard · What happens: bend, seize, dash · To what, where: hero, hands, Guard, ground

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Guard), 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	Guard	Guard	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 seized	nsubj
2	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	1 Guard	flat
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Guard	punct
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Guard	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bending	cc
6	bending	bend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 seized	advcl
7	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	6 bending	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seized	nsubj
9	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hero	det
11	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seized	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 hands	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hands	nmod:poss
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 seized	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dashed	cc
16	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seized	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dashed	obj
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 ground	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ground	det
20	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dashed	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bend	gerund	Guard not said here			suddenly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	seize	past	Guard	the hero	Guard's hands		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Theme
3	dash	past	Guard not said here	Guard	the ground		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme upon ground=Trajectory

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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