The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 24
Three times they came together with a crash which made their horses reel; once Rosald knocked the helmet off his foe, and received in return such a blow that he staggered in his saddle.
Who acts: pages, crash, horses, Rosald · What happens: come together, make, reel, knock off, receive, stagger · To what, where: helmet, return, blow, saddle
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pages, crash, horses, 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 crash | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 crash | det |
| 8 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 made | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 crash | acl:relcl |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 horses | nmod:poss |
| 12 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 reel | nsubj |
| 13 | reel | reel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | ccomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 knocked | punct |
| 15 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 17 knocked | mark |
| 16 | Rosald | Rosald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 knocked | nsubj |
| 17 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 helmet | det |
| 19 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knocked | obj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 knocked | compound:prt |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 foe | nmod:poss |
| 22 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knocked | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 received | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 received | cc |
| 25 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 knocked | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 return | case |
| 27 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 received | obl |
| 28 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 blow | det:predet |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 blow | det |
| 30 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 return | conj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 staggered | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 staggered | nsubj |
| 33 | staggered | stagger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 blow | acl:relcl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 saddle | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 saddle | nmod:poss |
| 36 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 staggered | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come together | past | pages = page | time | with a crash; together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | past | a crash | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | reel | present | pages's horses | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | knock off | past | Rosald | the helmet | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | receive | participle | Rosald not said here | return and such blow | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in return=Location | ||||
| 6 | stagger | past | Rosald | such blow not said here | Rosald's saddle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus blow=Experiencer |
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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