The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 44
Almost blindly he struck, not knowing whether he had killed or only wounded the rider.
Who acts: glimpse · What happens: strike, not know, kill, wound · To what, where: glimpse, rider · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (glimpse), 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 | Almost | almost | ADV | _ | 2 blindly | advmod |
| 2 | blindly | blindly | ADV | _ | 4 struck | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 struck | nsubj |
| 4 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 knowing | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 knowing | advmod |
| 7 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 struck | advcl |
| 8 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 11 killed | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 killed | aux |
| 11 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 knowing | ccomp |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 wounded | cc |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 wounded | advmod |
| 14 | wounded | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 killed | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rider | det |
| 16 | rider | rider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wounded | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | glimpse | blindly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | not know | gerund | glimpse not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | kill | past · perfect · passive | glimpse | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | wound | past | the rider | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus rider=Experiencer |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/9/44/