The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 57
Trembling with fright, Thakane returned to the tree, and struck it a sharp blow with the axe.
Who acts: Thakane · What happens: tremble, return, strike · To what, where: fright
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thakane), 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 | Trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 returned | advcl |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 fright | case |
| 3 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Trembling | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Trembling | punct |
| 5 | Thakane | Thakane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 struck | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 struck | cc |
| 12 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 returned | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 struck | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 blow | det |
| 15 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 blow | amod |
| 16 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 axe | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 axe | det |
| 19 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blow | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | gerund | Thakane not said here | with fright | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | past | Thakane | to the tree result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to tree=Result | ||||
| 3 | strike | past | Thakane not said here | fright | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent it=Patient blow=Result |
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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