The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 30
Then they arose, and as they did so Yspaddaden Penkawr took the third poisoned dart and cast it at them.
Who acts: eyebrows, Yspaddaden · What happens: arise, do, take, poison, cast · To what, where: third poisoned dart, death
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 (eyebrows, Yspaddaden), 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 arose | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arose | nsubj |
| 3 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 did | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 did | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | advcl |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 did | advmod |
| 10 | Yspaddaden | Yspaddaden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 took | nsubj |
| 11 | Penkawr | Penkawr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Yspaddaden | flat |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arose | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dart | det |
| 14 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 dart | amod |
| 15 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 dart | amod |
| 16 | dart | dart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cast | cc |
| 18 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cast | obj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cast | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | eyebrows = eyebrow | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | past | eyebrows = eyebrow | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take | past | Yspaddaden | the third poisoned dart | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dart=Theme | ||||
| 4 | poison | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | cast | present | Yspaddaden not said here | death | at eyebrows = eyebrow | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at they=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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