The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 38
‘Ah,’ said he, ‘the King’s daughter shall not overreach us;’ and, loading his gun, he shot so cleverly, that he shot away the horse’s skull from under the runner’s head, without its hurting him.
Who acts: wind, daughter, skull · What happens: say, not overreach, load, shoot, shoot away, hurt · To what, where: us, gun, skull, head, wind · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, daughter, skull), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 overreach | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 overreach | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 King | case |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 overreach | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 overreach | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 overreach | advmod |
| 15 | overreach | overreach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 overreach | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 overreach | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 overreach | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 loading | cc |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 loading | punct |
| 21 | loading | load | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 gun | nmod:poss |
| 23 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 loading | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 shot | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 shot | nsubj |
| 26 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 cleverly | advmod |
| 28 | cleverly | cleverly | ADV | _ | 26 shot | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 shot | punct |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 shot | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 shot | nsubj |
| 32 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 shot | conj |
| 33 | away | away | ADV | _ | 32 shot | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 horse | det |
| 35 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 skull | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 horse | case |
| 37 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shot | obj |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 head | case |
| 39 | under | under | ADP | _ | 43 head | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 runner | det |
| 41 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 head | nmod:poss |
| 42 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 41 runner | case |
| 43 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shot | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 hurting | punct |
| 45 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 47 hurting | mark |
| 46 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 hurting | nsubj |
| 47 | hurting | hurt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 shot | advcl |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 hurting | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | wind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not overreach | shall | the King's daughter | us | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot we=Theme | ||||
| 3 | load | gerund | wind not said here | wind's gun | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gun=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shoot | past | wind | cleverly property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | shoot away | past | wind | the horse's skull | the runner's head | away property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent skull=Theme from head=Initial_Location | ||
| 6 | hurt | gerund | skull | wind | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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