The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 55
And so sharp was that knife that, with one blow, the giant's head rolled on the ground.
Who acts: that · What happens: knife, roll · To what, where: head, ground
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 (that), 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 | _ | 3 sharp | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 sharp | advmod |
| 3 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 that | cop |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 3 sharp | advmod |
| 6 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 that | fixed |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 knife | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 blow | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 blow | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 blow | nummod |
| 11 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knife | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 head | 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 | 6 knife | appos |
| 17 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 head | acl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 ground | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ground | det |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rolled | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sharp | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knife | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | roll | participle | the giant's head not said here | the ground | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on 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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