The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 22
And drawing an axe from his belt, he cut off both her feet, which he picked up and put in his pocket.
Who acts: giant, feet · What happens: draw, cut off, pick up, put · To what, where: axe, belt, feet, pocket
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, feet), 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 | _ | 10 cut | cc |
| 2 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 cut | advcl |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 axe | det |
| 4 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drawing | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 belt | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 belt | nmod:poss |
| 7 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drawing | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 drawing | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cut | nsubj |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 cut | compound:prt |
| 12 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 14 feet | cc:preconj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cut | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 picked | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 picked | nsubj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 picked | nsubj |
| 18 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 feet | acl:relcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 picked | compound:prt |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 put | cc |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 picked | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 pocket | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 24 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl | ||
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | gerund | giant not said here | a axe | giant's belt | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent axe=Theme from belt=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | cut off | past | giant | princess's feet | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector foot=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | pick up | past | princess's feet | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | put | participle | princess's feet not said here | giant's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pocket=Destination |
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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