The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 21
Their comrade’s armour had not been pierced, of that they were sure, yet he was dead, as if he had been struck to the heart.
Who acts: men, Peronnik · What happens: not pierce, be, strike · To what, where: armour, Peronnik
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, Peronnik), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 2 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 armour | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 comrade | case |
| 4 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pierced | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pierced | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 pierced | advmod |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 pierced | aux:pass |
| 8 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sure | punct |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 sure | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 sure | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sure | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sure | cop |
| 14 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pierced | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dead | punct |
| 16 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 19 dead | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 dead | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 dead | cop |
| 19 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pierced | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 struck | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 struck | mark |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 struck | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 struck | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 struck | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 struck | aux:pass |
| 26 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 pierced | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 heart | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 heart | det |
| 29 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 struck | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pierced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pierce | past · perfect · passive | men's comrade's armour | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | past | men = man | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Peronnik | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | strike a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | Peronnik | to the heart result | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to heart=Result |
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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