The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 128
The youth did so, and found to his astonishment that with a single blow of his fist the stone flew into a thousand pieces.
Who acts: youth, stone, finger, fist · What happens: do, find, fly, astonish, blow · To what, where: astonishment, thousand pieces
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, stone, finger, fist), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 found | cc |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 astonishment | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 10 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 flew | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 blow | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 blow | det |
| 14 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 blow | amod |
| 15 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 flew | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 fist | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 fist | nmod:poss |
| 18 | fist | fist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blow | nmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stone | det |
| 20 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 flew | nsubj |
| 21 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 astonishment | acl:relcl |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 pieces | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 thousand | det |
| 24 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 pieces | nummod |
| 25 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 flew | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the youth | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | find | past | the youth not said here | to finger's astonishment | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | the stone | finger's astonishment | thousand pieces | with a single blow of finger's fist | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent that=Theme into piece=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | astonish | finger | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | blow | finger's fist | nom blow «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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