The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 8
Sometimes they broke an arm, sometimes a leg, and many a brave man had broken his neck even.
Who acts: knights · What happens: break · To what, where: arm, many
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (knights), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 broke | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 broke | nsubj |
| 3 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 arm | det |
| 5 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broke | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 leg | punct |
| 7 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 leg | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 leg | det |
| 9 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broke | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 broken | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 broken | cc |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 broken | aux |
| 17 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 broke | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 neck | nmod:poss |
| 19 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 broken | obj |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 broken | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | knights = knight | a arm | a leg obl; sometimes property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arm=Patient | |||
| 2 | break | past · perfect · passive | many | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient neck=Result |
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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