The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 63
Frightful as this encounter was the King’s courage was unshaken, and by the aid of his wonderful sword he cut them in pieces one after the other.
Who acts: encounter, King · What happens: be, cut · To what, where: dragons
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (encounter, King), 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 | Frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 unshaken | mark |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 encounter | det |
| 4 | encounter | encounter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 unshaken | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 unshaken | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 courage | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 King | case |
| 9 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 unshaken | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 unshaken | cop |
| 11 | unshaken | unshaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Frightful | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 cut | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cut | cc |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 aid | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 aid | det |
| 16 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cut | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sword | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sword | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sword | amod |
| 20 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 aid | nmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 cut | nsubj |
| 22 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Frightful | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 cut | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 pieces | case |
| 25 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 cut | obj |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 pieces | flat |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 29 other | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 other | det |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 one | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Frightful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this encounter | unshaken property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cut | past | King | dragons = dragon | by the aid of King's wonderful sword | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary piece=Product |
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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