The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 100

Luckily the blow was a hurried one, and the dagger glanced on is breastbone, so that, although he received a severe wound, his youth and strength quickly got the better of it.

Who acts: blow, youth · What happens: hurry, be, glance on, receive, get · To what, where: hurried one, dagger, dagger breastbone, severe wound

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blow, youth), 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	Luckily	luckily	ADV	_	3 blow	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 blow	det
3	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	hurried	hurry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 breastbone	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 breastbone	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dagger	det
11	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 breastbone	compound
12	glanced	glance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 dagger	acl
13	on	on	ADP	_	12 glanced	compound:prt
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 breastbone	cop
15	breastbone	breastbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 that	punct
17	so	so	SCONJ	_	18 that	case
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 one	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 received	punct
20	although	although	SCONJ	_	22 received	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 received	nsubj
22	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 wound	det
24	severe	severe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 wound	amod
25	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 received	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 youth	punct
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 youth	nmod:poss
28	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 got	nsubj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 strength	cc
30	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 youth	conj
31	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	32 got	advmod
32	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 wound	acl:relcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 better	det
34	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 got	xcomp
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 better	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hurry	participle				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	the blow	a hurried one and dagger breastbone	so that	tree rules
3	glance on	participle		the dagger not said here		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	the blow not said here	dagger breastbone		tree rules
5	receive	past	blow	a severe wound		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Theme
6	get	past	blow's youth and strength	a severe wound not said here	good, quickly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wound=Stimulus

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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