The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 138
It cuts like a dash of lightning.’
Who acts: sword · What happens: cut
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cuts | nsubj |
| 2 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 dash | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dash | det |
| 5 | dash | dash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cuts | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lightning | case |
| 7 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dash | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cuts | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 cuts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | present | sword | like a dash of lightning | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
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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