The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 46
Seize him at once by the beard and dash him to the ground.’
Who acts: you · What happens: seize, dash · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (you), 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 | Seize | seize | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Seize | obj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Seize | obl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 beard | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beard | det |
| 7 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seize | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dash | cc |
| 9 | dash | dash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Seize | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dash | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 ground | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dash | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seize | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seize | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | imperative | you not said here | man | by the beard | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | dash | infinitive | you not said here | man | to the ground result | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to ground=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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