The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 40
And there is no sword in the world that will cut off his head, save only that one.’
Who acts: sword · What happens: be, cut off, save · To what, where: head, one
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 is | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 sword | det |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 world | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sword | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 cut | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 cut | aux |
| 11 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sword | acl:relcl |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 cut | compound:prt |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cut | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 save | punct |
| 16 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cut | conj |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 one | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 save | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no sword in the world | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut off | future | no sword in the world | man's head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | save | infinitive | no sword in the world not said here | that one | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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