The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 9

With a roar that shook the walls she flung herself upon him; but he was on the watch, and a blow from his sword cut off the paw she had put forth to strike him dead.

Who acts: that, smallest, lion, blow · What happens: shake, fling, be, cut off, put, strike · To what, where: walls, smallest, watch, paw, lion

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, smallest, lion, blow), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 roar	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 roar	det
3	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shook	obl
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 shook	nsubj
5	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 walls	det
7	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shook	obj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 flung	nsubj
9	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shook	conj
10	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 flung	obj
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 flung	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 watch	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 watch	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 watch	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 watch	cop
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 watch	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 watch	det
19	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shook	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 blow	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 blow	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 blow	det
23	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 watch	conj
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 sword	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 sword	nmod:poss
26	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 blow	nmod
27	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 blow	acl
28	off	off	ADP	_	30 paw	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 paw	det
30	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cut	obl
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 put	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 put	aux
33	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 paw	acl:relcl
34	forth	forth	ADV	_	33 put	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 strike	mark
36	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 put	advcl
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 strike	obj
38	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 strike	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shake	past	that	the walls		with a roar	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent wall=Patient with roar=Co-Patient
2	fling	past	smallest = small	smallest = small		upon lion	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme upon he=Destination
3	is	past	lion		the watch and a blow from lion's sword		tree rules
4	cut off	participle	a blow from lion's sword not said here	the paw			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector paw=Eventuality
5	put	past · perfect	smallest = small	the paw not said here		forth property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent paw=Goal
6	strike	to-infinitive	smallest = small not said here	lion		dead property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument

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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