The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 17

Letting go the cord, I resolutely cut with my knife the cables that fastened the anchors, receiving more than two hundred shots in my face and hands.

Who acts: I, cables · What happens: let, go, cut, fasten, receive · To what, where: cord, cables, anchors, hundred shots, face

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, cables), 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	Letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 cut	advcl
2	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Letting	xcomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cord	det
4	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Letting	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 cut	nsubj
7	resolutely	resolutely	ADV	_	8 cut	advmod
8	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 knife	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 knife	nmod:poss
11	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cut	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cables	det
13	cables	cable	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cut	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 fastened	nsubj
15	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cables	acl:relcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 anchors	det
17	anchors	anchor	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fastened	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 receiving	punct
19	receiving	receive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 fastened	advcl
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	23 hundred	advmod
21	than	than	ADP	_	20 more	fixed
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 hundred	compound
23	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 shots	nummod
24	shots	shot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 receiving	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 face	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 face	nmod:poss
27	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 receiving	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hands	cc
29	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 face	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	gerund	I not said here				tree rules
2	go	infinitive	I not said here	the cord			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cord=Theme
3	cut	present	I	the cables		with my knife; resolutely property	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cable=Patient with knife=Instrument
4	fasten	past	the cables	the anchors			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anchor=Patient
5	receive	gerund	the cables not said here	hundred shots	my face and hands		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shot=Theme in face=Location

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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