The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 92
Then the youth swung his mighty sword in the air, and with one blow cut off the serpent’s head.
Who acts: youth, one blow · What happens: swing, cut off · To what, where: mighty sword, air, head
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, one blow), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 swung | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swung | nsubj |
| 4 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sword | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sword | amod |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swung | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swung | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 blow | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 blow | cc |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 blow | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 blow | nummod |
| 15 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swung | obl |
| 16 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 blow | acl |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 serpent | det |
| 19 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 serpent | case |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cut | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | past | the youth | eye's mighty sword | the air | then | with one blow | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme in air=Location | |
| 2 | cut off | participle | one blow not said here | the serpent's head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
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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