The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 38
But the prince drew the dagger of Timus and thrust it upwards through the giant’s armpit, for its full length.
Who acts: prince, thrust · What happens: draw, dagger · To what, where: armpit
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, thrust), 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 | _ | 4 drew | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dagger | det |
| 6 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Timus | case |
| 8 | Timus | Timus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dagger | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thrust | cc |
| 10 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dagger | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dagger | nsubj |
| 12 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 4 drew | advmod |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 armpit | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 giant | det |
| 15 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 armpit | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 giant | case |
| 17 | armpit | armpit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 length | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 length | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 length | nmod:poss |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 length | amod |
| 22 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | the prince | the giant's armpit | upwards property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | dagger | thrust | of Timus | 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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