The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 15
But Bedwyr saw and caught it, and flung it back so hard that it pierced the knee of Yspaddaden.
Who acts: Bedwyr, hall · What happens: see, catch, fling back, pierce · To what, where: hall, knee
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bedwyr, hall), 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 | _ | 3 saw | cc |
| 2 | Bedwyr | Bedwyr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 caught | cc |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 caught | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 flung | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 flung | cc |
| 9 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 flung | obj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 flung | advmod |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 hard | advmod |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 flung | advmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 pierced | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pierced | nsubj |
| 16 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 flung | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 knee | det |
| 18 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pierced | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Yspaddaden | case |
| 20 | Yspaddaden | Yspaddaden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 knee | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Bedwyr | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | catch | past | Bedwyr not said here | hall | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fling back | past | Bedwyr not said here | hall | hard property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | pierce | past | hall | the knee of Yspaddaden | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knee=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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