The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 25
Halvor took a draught, and in a moment he was able to swing the sword about with perfect ease.
Who acts: Halvor · What happens: take, be, swing · To what, where: draught, sword
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor), 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 | Halvor | Halvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 draught | det |
| 4 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 able | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 able | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 moment | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 moment | det |
| 9 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 able | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 able | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 able | cop |
| 12 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 took | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 swing | mark |
| 14 | swing | swing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sword | det |
| 16 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swing | obj |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 ease | case |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 ease | case |
| 19 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ease | amod |
| 20 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swing | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Halvor | a draught | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Halvor | moment | able property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | swing | to-infinitive | Halvor not said here | the sword | about perfect ease | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme about ease=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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