The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 90
After all, anyone can be killed by a blow from a stick if it is only hard enough!”
Who acts: blow · What happens: kill, be · To what, where: anyone
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 (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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 all | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 anyone | det |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 all | punct |
| 4 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 killed | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 killed | aux:pass |
| 7 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 blow | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 blow | det |
| 10 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 killed | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 stick | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stick | det |
| 13 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blow | nmod |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 hard | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hard | expl |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 hard | cop |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 hard | advmod |
| 18 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 killed | advcl |
| 19 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 18 hard | advmod |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 killed | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | can · passive | a blow from a stick | anyone | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | a blow from a stick not said here | enough, hard property | tree rules |
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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