The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 86

Then he drew the Sword of Sharpness and struck once, and the Terrible Head was cut from the shoulders of the creature, and the blood leaped out and struck him like a blow.

Who acts: boy, blood · What happens: draw, strike, cut, leap out · To what, where: Sword, Terrible Head, shoulders, boy

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, blood), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 drew	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Sword	det
5	Sword	Sword	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 drew	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Sharpness	case
7	Sharpness	Sharpness	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Sword	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 struck	cc
9	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 struck	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cut	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cut	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Head	det
14	Terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Head	amod
15	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cut	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cut	aux:pass
17	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 drew	conj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 shoulders	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shoulders	det
20	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cut	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 creature	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 creature	det
23	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shoulders	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 leaped	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 leaped	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 blood	det
27	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 leaped	nsubj
28	leaped	leap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 drew	conj
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 leaped	compound:prt
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 struck	cc
31	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 leaped	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 struck	obj
33	like	like	ADP	_	35 blow	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 blow	det
35	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 struck	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	boy	the Sword of Sharpness		then		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
2	strike	past	boy not said here				once property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cut	past · passive		the Terrible Head	the shoulders of the creature			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from shoulder=Material
4	leap out	participle	the blood					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	strike	past	the blood not said here	boy			like a blow	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument

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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