The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 74
So saying he grasped his sword, and cut at the Troll in such a way that all his fifteen heads danced away over the sands.
Who acts: Fie, way · What happens: say, grasp, cut, dance away · To what, where: sword, sands · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fie, way), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grasped | nsubj |
| 4 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saying | ccomp |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sword | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grasped | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cut | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cut | cc |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 saying | advcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 Troll | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Troll | det |
| 12 | Troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cut | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 way | case |
| 14 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 way | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cut | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 danced | nsubj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 heads | det:predet |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 heads | nmod:poss |
| 20 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 heads | nummod |
| 21 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 danced | nsubj |
| 22 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 way | acl:relcl |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 danced | advmod |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 sands | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sands | det |
| 26 | sands | sand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 danced | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | grasp | past | Fie | Fie's sword | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | cut | participle | in such way; at the Troll | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at troll=Patient | |||||
| 4 | dance away | participle | such way | 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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