The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 99

So first with one blow of the Sword of Sharpness he cut the iron chain that bound her, and then he asked her what she did there, and why men treated her so cruelly.

Who acts: one blow, iron chain, blow, girl, men, Sword · What happens: cut, bind, ask, do, treat, blow · To what, where: iron chain, girl

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 (one blow, iron chain, blow, girl), 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	So	so	ADV	_	12 cut	advmod
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 blow	advmod
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 blow	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 blow	nummod
5	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cut	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Sword	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sword	det
8	Sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blow	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Sharpness	case
10	Sharpness	sharpness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Sword	nmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cut	nsubj
12	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 chain	det
14	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 chain	compound
15	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cut	obj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 bound	nsubj
17	bound	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 chain	acl:relcl
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bound	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 asked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 asked	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 asked	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asked	nsubj
23	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cut	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asked	obj
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 asked	obj
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 did	nsubj
27	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 what	acl:relcl
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 did	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 treated	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 treated	cc
31	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	33 treated	advmod
32	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 treated	nsubj
33	treated	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cut	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 treated	obj
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 cruelly	advmod
36	cruelly	cruelly	ADV	_	33 treated	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	one blow of the Sword of Sharpness	the iron chain					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chain=Product
2	bind	past	the iron chain	girl					vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	ask speech: ask	past	blow		girl		then		tree rules
4	do	past	girl			there			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	treat	past	men		girl			cruelly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
6	blow		the Sword of Sharpness						nom blow «act intransitive»: of=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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