The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 103
Before he could rise and bite again the boy had whipped the Terrible Head out of his wallet and held it up.
Who acts: lot · What happens: rise, bite, whip, hold up · To what, where: boy, wallet, Head
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lot), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 rise | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rise | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 rise | aux |
| 4 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 whipped | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bite | cc |
| 6 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 rise | conj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 rise | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 whipped | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 whipped | aux |
| 11 | whipped | whip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Head | det |
| 13 | Terrible | Terrible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Head | compound |
| 14 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 whipped | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 wallet | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 wallet | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wallet | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 whipped | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 held | cc |
| 20 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 whipped | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 held | obj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 held | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 whipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | could | lot | again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bite | infinitive | lot not said here | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | whip | past · perfect · passive | the boy | lot's wallet | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient head=Result | ||||
| 4 | hold up | past | Head | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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