The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 19
And sharp indeed it was, for with a single blow, the giant's head rolled from his body.
Who acts: raven, head · What happens: be, roll · To what, where: body
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (raven, head), 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 | _ | 2 sharp | cc |
| 2 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 11 blow | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 blow | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 blow | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 blow | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 blow | case |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 blow | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 blow | det |
| 10 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 blow | amod |
| 11 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sharp | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rolled | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 giant | det |
| 14 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 giant | case |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rolled | nsubj |
| 17 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sharp | parataxis |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 body | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 body | nmod:poss |
| 20 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rolled | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sharp | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | raven | for a single blow; indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | roll | past | the giant's head | giant's body | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from body=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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