The Red Fairy Book, ‘master! Master!’, sentence 10
His mother ran to him with a hatchet in her hand, and Jack with one tremendous blow cut through all the Beanstalks except one.
Who acts: mother · What happens: run, cut · To what, where: Jack, one tremendous blow
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘master! Master!’. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 hatchet | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hatchet | det |
| 8 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hatchet | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 blow | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 blow | cc |
| 14 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 blow | nsubj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 blow | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 blow | nummod |
| 17 | tremendous | tremendous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 blow | amod |
| 18 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 19 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 blow | acl |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 Beanstalks | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 Beanstalks | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Beanstalks | det |
| 23 | Beanstalks | beanstalk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cut | obl |
| 24 | except | except | ADP | _ | 25 one | case |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 cut | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Jack's mother | Jack | with a hatchet in Mother's hand | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | |||
| 2 | cut | participle | one tremendous blow not said here | except one; through all Beanstalks | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through beanstalk=Patient |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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