The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 8

Then with a loud roar he leaped upon the giant, who fell dead under the blow of his paw.

Who acts: lion, paw · What happens: leap, fall, blow · To what, where: blow

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion, paw), 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	7 leaped	advmod
2	with	with	ADP	_	5 roar	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 roar	det
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 roar	amod
5	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leaped	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 leaped	nsubj
7	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	10 giant	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 giant	det
10	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 leaped	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 fell	nsubj
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 giant	conj
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fell	xcomp
15	under	under	ADP	_	17 blow	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 blow	det
17	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 paw	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 paw	nmod:poss
20	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blow	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 leaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	leap	past	lion		then	with a loud roar; giant property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past		the blow of lion's paw		dead property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under blow=Location
3	blow		lion's paw				nom blow «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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