The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 28
Then Ian drew his sword and cut off the head of the raven, and shut his eyes so that he might see nothing.
Who acts: Ian · What happens: draw, cut off, shut, see · To what, where: sword, head, eyes, nothing
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ian), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sword | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cut | cc |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 drew | conj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 head | det |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 raven | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 raven | det |
| 13 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 head | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shut | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 shut | cc |
| 16 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shut | obj |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 see | mark |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 so | fixed |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | aux |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 shut | advcl |
| 24 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 see | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Ian | Ian's sword | then | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||
| 2 | cut off | participle | Ian not said here | the head of the raven | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | shut | past | Ian not said here | Ian's eyes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 4 | see | might | Ian | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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