The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40, sentence 7
There three knights caught his feet unawares and plunged him into the water, while one snatched the razor from him, and another seized the scissors.
Who acts: three knights, one, another · What happens: catch, plunge, snatch, seize · To what, where: feet unawares, boar, water, razor, scissors
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three knights, one, another), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 caught | expl |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 knights | nummod |
| 3 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 caught | nsubj |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 unawares | compound |
| 7 | unawares | unaware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 caught | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 plunged | cc |
| 9 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 plunged | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plunged | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 snatched | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 snatched | mark |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 snatched | nsubj |
| 17 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 razor | det |
| 19 | razor | razor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 snatched | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 snatched | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 seized | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 seized | cc |
| 24 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 25 seized | nsubj |
| 25 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 scissors | det |
| 27 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 seized | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | three knights | feet unawares | there | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent unaware=Theme | |||
| 2 | plunge | past | three knights not said here | boar | the water | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | |||
| 3 | snatch | past | one | the razor | from boar | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent razor=Theme from he=Source | |||
| 4 | seize | past | another | the scissors | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scissors=Theme |
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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