The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 56
But no sooner had he struck the first blow with his axe than it broke into a thousand pieces against the tree.
Who acts: Prince, AXE · What happens: have, strike, break · To what, where: first blow, thousand pieces
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (Prince, AXE), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 had | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 sooner | det |
| 3 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 had | advmod |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 struck | nsubj |
| 6 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 blow | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 blow | amod |
| 9 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 axe | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 axe | nmod:poss |
| 12 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blow | nmod |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 15 broke | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 broke | nsubj |
| 15 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 struck | advcl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 pieces | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 thousand | det |
| 18 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 pieces | nummod |
| 19 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 broke | obl |
| 20 | against | against | ADP | _ | 22 tree | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pieces | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | soon property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | strike | past | Prince | the first blow | with Prince's axe | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent blow=Patient with axe=Instrument | |||
| 3 | break | past | AXE | into thousand pieces against the tree result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=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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