The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 113
Then he went into the stall, and with one blow of the axe killed the calf, and with the second split its brain.
Who acts: Better, second, axe · What happens: go, kill, split, blow · To what, where: stall, calf, brain
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 (Better, second, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 stall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stall | det |
| 6 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 killed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 killed | cc |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 blow | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 blow | nummod |
| 11 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 killed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 axe | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 axe | det |
| 14 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blow | nmod |
| 15 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 calf | det |
| 17 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 killed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 split | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 split | cc |
| 20 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 23 split | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 second | det |
| 22 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 split | nsubj |
| 23 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 brain | nmod:poss |
| 25 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 split | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Better = good | the stall | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into stall=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | kill | past | Better = good not said here | the calf | with one blow of the axe | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent calf=Patient with blow=Instrument | |||
| 3 | split | past | the second | axe's brain | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient | ||||
| 4 | blow | the axe | 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 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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