The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 97

He had knocked the gate to pieces and bruised their arms and legs with his iron staff.

What happens: knock, bruise · To what, where: Hans, arms

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knocked	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knocked	aux
3	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gate	det
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knocked	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 pieces	case
7	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 knocked	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bruised	cc
9	bruised	bruise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knocked	conj
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 arms	nmod:poss
11	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bruised	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 legs	cc
13	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 arms	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 staff	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 staff	nmod:poss
16	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 staff	compound
17	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bruised	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	past · perfect · passive		Hans				to pieces	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination gate=Theme
2	bruise	past		compliments's arms and legs				with Hans's iron staff	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent arm=Patient with staff=Instrument

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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