The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4, sentence 12
With this sword only it is possible to kill the Serpent, because even if its blade breaks a new one will grow again for every head the monster has.
Who acts: it, blade, new one, monster · What happens: be, kill, break, grow, have · To what, where: Serpent, head
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, blade, new one, monster), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 sword | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sword | det |
| 3 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 possible | obl |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 possible | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 possible | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 possible | cop |
| 7 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 kill | mark |
| 9 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 possible | csubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Serpent | det |
| 11 | Serpent | Serpent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 kill | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 breaks | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 breaks | mark |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 breaks | advmod |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 breaks | mark |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 blade | nmod:poss |
| 17 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 breaks | nsubj |
| 18 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 possible | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 one | det |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | amod |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grow | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 grow | aux |
| 23 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 breaks | conj |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 grow | advmod |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 head | case |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 head | det |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grow | obl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 monster | det |
| 29 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 has | nsubj |
| 30 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 head | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | with this sword; possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | to-infinitive | the Serpent | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | break | present | sword's blade | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | grow | future | a new one | again | for every head | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | have | present | the monster | every head not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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