The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 46

But once more he was unhorsed, and the black knight’s lance broke his helmet and pierced the skin even to the bone, and humbled in spirit he returned to the camp.

Who acts: lance, Kai · What happens: unhorse, break, pierce, humble, return · To what, where: Kai, helmet, skin, spirit, camp

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lance, Kai), 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	_	6 unhorsed	cc
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 more	advmod
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 unhorsed	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 unhorsed	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unhorsed	aux:pass
6	unhorsed	unhorse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 broke	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 broke	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 knight	det
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 knight	amod
11	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lance	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 knight	case
13	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 broke	nsubj
14	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unhorsed	parataxis
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 helmet	nmod:poss
16	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 broke	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 pierced	cc
18	pierced	pierce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 broke	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 skin	det
20	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pierced	obj
21	even	even	ADV	_	24 bone	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 bone	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bone	det
24	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pierced	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 humbled	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 humbled	cc
27	humbled	humble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 unhorsed	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 spirit	case
29	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 humbled	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 returned	nsubj
31	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 spirit	acl:relcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 camp	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 camp	det
34	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 returned	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 unhorsed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	unhorse	past · passive		Kai			tree rules
2	break	past	the black knight's lance	Kai's helmet			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer helmet=Patient
3	pierce	past	the black knight's lance not said here	the skin		to the bone	vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
4	humble	participle			spirit		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	return	past	Kai	spirit not said here	the camp		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme to camp=Destination

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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