The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 125
Then, before he could rise to his feet again, Rosald drew out his sword and cut off his head.
Who acts: Rosald · What happens: rise, draw out, cut off · To what, where: feet, sword
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosald), 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 | 13 drew | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 rise | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rise | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 rise | aux |
| 6 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 drew | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 feet | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 feet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rise | obl |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 rise | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rise | punct |
| 12 | Rosald | Rosald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 drew | nsubj |
| 13 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 drew | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sword | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drew | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 head | cc |
| 18 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 head | amod |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 cut | compound:prt |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sword | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | could | Rosald | Rosald's feet | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | draw out | past | Rosald | Rosald's sword and Rosald's cut head | then | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||
| 3 | cut off | participle | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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 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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