The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 52
Alonzo, for such was his name, sprang forward, and with one blow of his fist stretched the creature dead upon the road.
Who acts: Alonzo, fist · What happens: be, spring, stretch, blow
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alonzo, fist), 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 | Alonzo | Alonzo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sprang | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alonzo | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 name | case |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 name | amod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 name | cop |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 name | nmod:poss |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Alonzo | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alonzo | punct |
| 9 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 9 sprang | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stretched | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stretched | cc |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 blow | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 blow | nummod |
| 15 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stretched | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 fist | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 fist | nmod:poss |
| 18 | fist | fist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blow | nmod |
| 19 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sprang | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 creature | det |
| 21 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dead | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stretched | xcomp |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 road | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 road | det |
| 25 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stretched | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | for Alonzo's such name | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | spring | past | Alonzo | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stretch | past | Alonzo not said here | with one blow of Alonzo's fist; upon the road; dead property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with blow=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | blow | Alonzo's fist | nom blow «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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