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The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 85

Then he came nearer and nearer, till he reckoned that he was within a sword’s stroke of the youngest, and he guessed where he should strike a back blow behind him.

Who acts: boy, sword · What happens: come, reckon, be, guess, strike, stroke · To what, where: back blow · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boy, 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

advmodnsubjxcompccconjpunctmarknsubjconjmarknsubjcopcasedetnmod:posscaseoblcasedetadvclpunctccnsubjconjadvmodnsubjauxccompdetcompoundobjcaseoblpunctrootThenADVhePRONcameVERBnearerADJandCCONJnearerADJ,PUNCTtillSCONJhePRONreckonedVERBthatSCONJhePRONwasAUXwithinADPaDETswordNOUN’sPARTstrokeNOUNofADPtheDETyoungestADJ,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONguessedVERBwhereADVhePRONshouldAUXstrikeVERBaDETbackNOUNblowNOUNbehindADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 cameadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 camensubj
3camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4nearernearADJDegree=Cmp3 camexcomp
5andandCCONJ_6 nearercc
6nearernearADJDegree=Cmp4 nearerconj
7,,PUNCT_10 reckonedpunct
8tilltillSCONJ_10 reckonedmark
9hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 reckonednsubj
10reckonedreckonVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 cameconj
11thatthatSCONJ_21 youngestmark
12hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 youngestnsubj
13wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 youngestcop
14withinwithinADP_18 strokecase
15aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 sworddet
16swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing18 strokenmod:poss
17’s'sPART_16 swordcase
18strokestrokeNOUNNumber=Sing21 youngestobl
19ofofADP_21 youngestcase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 youngestdet
21youngestyoungADJDegree=Sup10 reckonedadvcl
22,,PUNCT_25 guessedpunct
23andandCCONJ_25 guessedcc
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 guessednsubj
25guessedguessVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 cameconj
26wherewhereADVPronType=Rel29 strikeadvmod
27hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 strikensubj
28shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin29 strikeaux
29strikestrikeVERBVerbForm=Inf25 guessedccomp
30aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art32 blowdet
31backbackNOUNNumber=Sing32 blowcompound
32blowblowNOUNNumber=Sing29 strikeobj
33behindbehindADP_34 himcase
34himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 strikeobl
35..PUNCT_3 camepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepastboythennear propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2reckonpastboyvn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3ispastboywithin a sword's stroke; young propertytree rules
4guesspastboyvn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5strikeshouldboya back blowbehind birdvn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Patient
6strokea swordnom stroke «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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