The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 29

When the serpent rears up its body you will cut off its three heads with one blow of your sword.

Who acts: serpent, you, sword · What happens: rear up, cut off, blow · To what, where: body, three heads

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (serpent, you, sword), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 rears	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 serpent	det
3	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rears	nsubj
4	rears	rear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cut	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 rears	compound:prt
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 body	nmod:poss
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rears	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 cut	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 cut	aux
10	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 cut	compound:prt
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 heads	nmod:poss
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 heads	nummod
14	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cut	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 blow	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 blow	nummod
17	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 sword	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sword	nmod:poss
20	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blow	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rear up	present	the serpent	serpent's body		vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient
2	cut off	future	you	serpent's three heads	with one blow of your sword	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
3	blow		your sword			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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