The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 3

But the Knight of the Fish knew no fear, and had never turned his back on an enemy; so he drew out his horn, and blew a blast.

Who acts: Knight · What happens: know, not turn, draw out, blow · To what, where: fear, back, enemy, horn, blast

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knight), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 knew	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Knight	det
3	Knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knew	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Fish	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fish	det
6	Fish	Fish	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Knight	nmod
7	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 fear	det
9	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knew	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 turned	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 turned	cc
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 turned	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 turned	advmod
14	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 knew	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 back	nmod:poss
16	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turned	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 enemy	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 enemy	det
19	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turned	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 drew	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 drew	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 drew	nsubj
23	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 knew	parataxis
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 drew	compound:prt
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 horn	nmod:poss
26	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drew	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 blew	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 blew	cc
29	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 drew	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 blast	det
31	blast	blast	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 blew	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	know	past	the Knight of the Fish	no fear		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fear=Stimulus
2	not turn	past · perfect	the Knight of the Fish not said here	Knight's back	a enemy	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme
3	draw out	past	Knight	Knight's horn		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Theme
4	blow	past	Knight not said here	a blast		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent blast=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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