The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 96

Then Owen unsheathed his sword, and cut off the serpent’s head and went on his way, and the lion followed and played about him, as if he had been a greyhound.

Who acts: Owen, lion · What happens: unsheathe, cut off, go, follow, play, be · To what, where: sword, head, way, greyhound

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 (Owen, lion), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 unsheathed	advmod
2	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 unsheathed	nsubj
3	unsheathed	unsheathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sword	nmod:poss
5	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 unsheathed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cut	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cut	cc
8	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 unsheathed	parataxis
9	off	off	ADP	_	13 head	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 serpent	det
11	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 head	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 serpent	case
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cut	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cut	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 way	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 way	nmod:poss
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 followed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 followed	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 lion	det
22	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 followed	nsubj
23	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 unsheathed	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 played	cc
25	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 unsheathed	conj
26	about	about	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 played	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 greyhound	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 greyhound	mark
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 greyhound	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 greyhound	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 greyhound	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 greyhound	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 greyhound	det
35	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 played	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 unsheathed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unsheathe	past	Owen	Owen's sword		then		tree rules
2	cut off	participle		the serpent's head				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
3	go	past			Owen's way			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
4	follow	past	the lion					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	play	past	Owen not said here				about lion	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	lion	a greyhound				tree rules

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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