The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 20
So the brother went, and in an instant was struck dead as he left the house by the sword of the eldest Sodno.
Who acts: brother · What happens: go, strike, leave · To what, where: instant, house
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brother | det |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 struck | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 struck | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 instant | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 instant | det |
| 9 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 struck | obl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 struck | aux:pass |
| 11 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | conj |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 struck | xcomp |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 left | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 left | nsubj |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 struck | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 sword | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sword | det |
| 20 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Sodno | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Sodno | det |
| 23 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 Sodno | amod |
| 24 | Sodno | Sodno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 sword | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the brother | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | strike | past · passive | the brother not said here | a instant | dead property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: in instant=Location | |||
| 3 | leave | past | brother | the house | by the sword of the eldest Sodno | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent house=Theme by sword=Location |
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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