The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 28
Having done this, he grasped the sword and smote the Troll dead.
Who acts: flask · What happens: have, do, grasp, smote · To what, where: this, sword, Troll
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flask), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 grasped | advcl |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 done | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 grasped | nsubj |
| 6 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sword | det |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grasped | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 smote | cc |
| 10 | smote | smote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 grasped | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Troll | det |
| 12 | Troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 smote | obj |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 smote | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | flask not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | participle | flask not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | grasp | past | flask | the sword | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | smote | infinitive | flask not said here | the Troll | dead property | tree rules |
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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