The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 49
After riding for a day and a night, almost without stopping, he came to a great cave where he made the woman dismount, and, taking her and the baby into the cave, he drew his sword and with one blow chopped her head off.
Who acts: king, one blow · What happens: ride, stop, come, make, take, draw · To what, where: great cave, woman dismount, messenger, cave, sword, head
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 (king, one 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 | SCONJ | _ | 2 riding | mark |
| 2 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 came | advcl |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 riding | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 night | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 night | det |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stopping | punct |
| 10 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 12 stopping | advmod |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 stopping | mark |
| 12 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 riding | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 riding | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 cave | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cave | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cave | amod |
| 19 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 made | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 made | nsubj |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 cave | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 dismount | det |
| 24 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dismount | compound |
| 25 | dismount | dismount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 taking | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 taking | cc |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 taking | punct |
| 29 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 came | advcl |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 taking | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 baby | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 baby | det |
| 33 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 taking | conj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 cave | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 cave | det |
| 36 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 taking | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 drew | punct |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 drew | nsubj |
| 39 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | parataxis |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 sword | nmod:poss |
| 41 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 drew | obj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 chopped | cc |
| 43 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 46 chopped | mark |
| 44 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 blow | nummod |
| 45 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 chopped | nsubj |
| 46 | chopped | chop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 drew | conj |
| 47 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 head | nmod:poss |
| 48 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 chopped | obj |
| 49 | off | off | ADP | _ | 46 chopped | compound:prt |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | gerund | king not said here | day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stop | gerund | king not said here | almost property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | come | past | king | a great cave | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | make | past | king | the woman dismount | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dismount=Product | ||||
| 5 | take | gerund | king not said here | messenger | the cave | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into cave=Destination | |||
| 6 | draw | past | king | king's sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 7 | chop off | past | one blow | messenger's head | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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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