The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 77

Fiercely they fought till their lances were broken, and then they drew their swords, and a blow from Owen cut through the knight’s helmet, and pierced his skull.

Who acts: knights, blow · What happens: fight, break, draw, cut, pierce · To what, where: lances, swords, skull

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knights, 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	Fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	3 fought	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fought	nsubj
3	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 broken	mark
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lances	nmod:poss
6	lances	lance	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 broken	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 broken	aux:pass
8	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fought	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drew	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 drew	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 drew	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 drew	nsubj
13	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fought	conj
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 swords	nmod:poss
15	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 drew	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cut	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cut	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 blow	det
19	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cut	nsubj
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 Owen	case
21	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 blow	nmod
22	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fought	parataxis
23	through	through	ADP	_	27 helmet	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 knight	det
25	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 helmet	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 knight	case
27	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cut	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 pierced	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 pierced	cc
30	pierced	pierce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fought	conj
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 skull	nmod:poss
32	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pierced	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	knights = knight			fiercely property	tree rules
2	break	past · passive		knights's lances			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	draw	past	knights = knight	knights's swords	then		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
4	cut	past	a blow from Owen			through the knight's helmet	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through helmet=Patient
5	pierce	past	knights = knight not said here	blow's skull			vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skull=Patient

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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