The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 51
Then he grasped his sword and struck at the Troll, so that all his ten heads danced away over the sands.
Who acts: Minnikin, ten heads · What happens: grasp, strike, dance away · To what, where: sword, sands
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minnikin, ten heads), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 grasped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grasped | nsubj |
| 3 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sword | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grasped | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 struck | cc |
| 7 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 grasped | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Troll | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Troll | det |
| 10 | Troll | Troll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 danced | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 danced | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 danced | mark |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 heads | det:predet |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heads | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 heads | nummod |
| 17 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 danced | nsubj |
| 18 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 grasped | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 danced | advmod |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 sands | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sands | det |
| 22 | sands | sand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 danced | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grasp | past | Minnikin | Minnikin's sword | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | strike | participle | Minnikin not said here | at the Troll | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at troll=Patient | ||||
| 3 | dance away | participle | Minnikin's ten heads | the sands | away property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sand=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 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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