The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 89
But her brother followed, and with one blow cut off the pumpkin and her hand too.
Who acts: brother, one blow · What happens: follow, cut off · To what, where: one blow, pumpkin
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, one blow), 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 followed | cc |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 followed | nsubj |
| 4 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 blow | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 blow | cc |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 blow | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 blow | nummod |
| 9 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 followed | obj |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 blow | acl |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 pumpkin | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pumpkin | det |
| 13 | pumpkin | pumpkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cut | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hand | cc |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pumpkin | conj |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 cut | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Girl's brother | one blow | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut off | participle | one blow not said here | the pumpkin and Girl's hand | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector pumpkin=Eventuality |
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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