The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 39
This made Chil-maq drop him and try to pick up his club; but when he stooped the mighty sword shore him through at the waist.
Who acts: This, Chil maq, prince · What happens: make, drop, try, pick up, stoop · To what, where: prince, club, mighty sword shore, waist
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 (This, Chil maq, prince), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Chil | Chil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 maq | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Chil | punct |
| 5 | maq | maq | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drop | nsubj |
| 6 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | ccomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 drop | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 try | cc |
| 9 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 drop | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 pick | mark |
| 11 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 try | xcomp |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 pick | compound:prt |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 club | nmod:poss |
| 14 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pick | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 stooped | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 stooped | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 stooped | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stooped | nsubj |
| 19 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 shore | det |
| 21 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 shore | amod |
| 22 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shore | compound |
| 23 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stooped | obj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 shore | obj |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 28 waist | case |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 waist | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 waist | det |
| 28 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stooped | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | This | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drop | present | Chil maq | prince | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | try | infinitive | Chil maq not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | pick up not said to happen | to-infinitive | Chil maq not said here | prince's club | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Topic | ||||
| 5 | stoop | past | prince | the mighty sword shore | the waist | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shore=Theme |
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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