The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 11
Not long after his punishment overtook him, for no sooner had he struck a couple of blows on a tree with his axe, than he cut his leg so badly that he had to be carried home.
Who acts: punishment, youngest · What happens: overtake, have, strike, cut, carry, punish · To what, where: youngest, couple, tree, leg
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (punishment, youngest), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 overtook | mark |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 punishment | nmod:poss |
| 5 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 overtook | nsubj |
| 6 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 long | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 overtook | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 had | mark |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 sooner | det |
| 11 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 had | advmod |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 overtook | conj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 struck | nsubj |
| 14 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | ccomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 couple | det |
| 16 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 struck | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 blows | case |
| 18 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 couple | nmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 tree | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tree | det |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 struck | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 axe | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 axe | nmod:poss |
| 24 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 struck | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 cut | punct |
| 26 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 28 cut | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 cut | nsubj |
| 28 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 struck | parataxis |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 leg | nmod:poss |
| 30 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cut | obj |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 badly | advmod |
| 32 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 cut | advmod |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 had | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 had | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 cut | advcl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 carried | mark |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 carried | aux:pass |
| 38 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 had | xcomp |
| 39 | home | home | ADV | _ | 38 carried | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overtake | past | youngest's punishment | youngest = young | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | youngest's punishment not said here | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | strike | past | punishment | a couple of blows | a tree | with punishment's axe | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent couple=Patient with axe=Instrument | ||
| 4 | cut | past | punishment | punishment's leg | badly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Product | |||
| 5 | have | past | punishment | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | carry | to-infinitive · passive | punishment not said here | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 7 | punish | youngest = young | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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