The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 46
He fought on, and when he struck on a belt the wearer fell in two, and when on a head he cleft to the waist.
Who acts: prince, wearer · What happens: fight, strike, fall, cleft · To what, where: belt, two
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, wearer), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fought | nsubj |
| 2 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 fought | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 struck | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 struck | cc |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 struck | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 struck | nsubj |
| 8 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fought | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 belt | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 belt | det |
| 11 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 struck | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wearer | det |
| 13 | wearer | wearer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fell | nsubj |
| 14 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 belt | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 two | case |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 fell | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cleft | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cleft | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 cleft | advmod |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 head | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 head | det |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cleft | compound |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 cleft | nsubj |
| 24 | cleft | cleft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fought | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 waist | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 waist | det |
| 27 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cleft | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | prince | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | strike | past | prince | a belt | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on belt=Location | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | the wearer | a belt not said here | two | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient belt=Result | |||
| 4 | cleft | prince | to the waist | 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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