The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 15

They cut off the duck’s head with a swing of the king’s sword, and took the egg out of its body, but in his triumph the king held it carelessly, and it slipped from his hand, and rolled swiftly down the hill right into the river.

Who acts: king, body, sword, hawk · What happens: cut off, take, hold, slip, roll, swing · To what, where: head, egg, body, triumph, river

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, body, sword, hawk), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	7 head	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 duck	det
5	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 head	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 duck	case
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cut	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 swing	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 swing	det
10	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cut	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 sword	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sword	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 king	case
15	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swing	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 took	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 took	cc
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cut	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 egg	det
20	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	obj
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 body	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 body	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 body	nmod:poss
24	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 held	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 held	cc
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 triumph	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 triumph	nmod:poss
29	triumph	triumph	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 held	obl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 king	det
31	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 held	nsubj
32	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 held	obj
34	carelessly	carelessly	ADV	_	32 held	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 slipped	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 slipped	cc
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 slipped	nsubj
38	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	conj
39	from	from	ADP	_	41 hand	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 hand	nmod:poss
41	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 slipped	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 rolled	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 rolled	cc
44	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	conj
45	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	44 rolled	advmod
46	down	down	ADP	_	48 hill	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 hill	det
48	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 rolled	obl
49	right	right	ADV	_	52 river	advmod
50	into	into	ADP	_	52 river	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 river	det
52	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 rolled	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cut off	present	king	the duck's head		with a swing of the king's sword	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
2	take	past		the egg	egg's body		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent egg=Theme out body=Initial_Location
3	hold	past	the king	body	hawk's triumph	carelessly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in triumph=Location
4	slip	past	body			from hawk's hand	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from hand=Co-Patient
5	roll	past			the river	down the hill; swiftly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme down hill=Source into river=Trajectory
6	swing		the king's sword				nom swing «state intransitive»: of=agent
7	triumph		hawk				nom triumph «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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