The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 105
And giving the poor frog a blow on her head, which knocked her straight into the water, he walked off in a rage to his younger sister the mouse.
Who acts: helter, blow · What happens: give, knock, walk off · To what, where: blow, poor frog, water, frog, rage
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (helter, blow), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 giving | cc |
| 2 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 walked | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 frog | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 frog | amod |
| 5 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 giving | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 blow | det |
| 7 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 giving | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blow | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knocked | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 knocked | nsubj |
| 13 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 blow | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knocked | obj |
| 15 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 18 water | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knocked | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 giving | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 walked | nsubj |
| 21 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 walked | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 rage | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 rage | det |
| 25 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 walked | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 sister | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 sister | nmod:poss |
| 28 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 sister | amod |
| 29 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rage | appos |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 mouse | det |
| 31 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sister | nsubj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund | helter not said here | a blow | the poor frog | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent frog=Recipient blow=Theme | |||
| 2 | knock | past | a blow | the water | frog | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination water=Theme | |||
| 3 | walk off | past | helter | a rage | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=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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