The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 119
And the knife was so sharp that it cut off the giant's head with a blow.
Who acts: knife · What happens: be, cut off · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knife), 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 | _ | 6 sharp | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 knife | det |
| 3 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sharp | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sharp | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 sharp | advmod |
| 6 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 cut | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cut | nsubj |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sharp | advcl |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 giant | det |
| 12 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 giant | case |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cut | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 blow | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 blow | det |
| 17 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cut | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sharp | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the knife | sharp property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cut off | past | knife | the giant's head | with a blow | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
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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