The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 11

At length one man, bolder than the rest, struck his axe into a tree, but his blow was followed by a stream of blood and shrieks as of a human creature in pain.

Who acts: stream, man · What happens: strike, follow, shriek, blow · To what, where: axe, length, blow

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stream, man), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 struck	obl
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 man	nummod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 length	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bolder	punct
6	bolder	bold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 man	amod
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 rest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rest	det
9	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bolder	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
11	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 axe	nmod:poss
13	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 struck	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 tree	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tree	det
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 struck	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 followed	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 followed	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 blow	nmod:poss
20	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 followed	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 followed	aux:pass
22	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 struck	parataxis
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 stream	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 stream	det
25	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 followed	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 blood	case
27	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stream	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 shrieks	cc
29	shrieks	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 followed	conj
30	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	34 creature	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	30 as	fixed
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 creature	det
33	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 creature	amod
34	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shrieks	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 pain	case
36	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 creature	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strike	past		man's axe	length and one man	into a tree result	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent axe=Patient into tree=Result
2	follow	past · passive	a stream of blood	man's blow			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	shriek	present	a stream of blood not said here			as a human creature in pain	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	blow		man				nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=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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