The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 106
Take an axe, and cut off the head of the calf with one blow.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, cut off · To what, where: axe, head
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 axe | det |
| 3 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cut | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cut | cc |
| 6 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Take | advcl |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 head | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 head | det |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cut | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 calf | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 calf | det |
| 12 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 head | nmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 blow | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 blow | nummod |
| 15 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 calf | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | a axe | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut off | participle | you not said here | the head of the calf with one blow | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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