The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 21
Only a warrior can deliver me now, a young giant who is strong to wield the battle-axe: whose sword deals deadly blows.’
Who acts: warrior, young giant, sword · What happens: deliver, be, wield, deal · To what, where: me, battle axe, deadly blows
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (warrior, young giant, 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 warrior | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 warrior | det |
| 3 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deliver | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 deliver | aux |
| 5 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 deliver | obj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 deliver | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 giant | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 giant | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 giant | amod |
| 11 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deliver | parataxis |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 strong | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 strong | cop |
| 14 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 giant | amod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 wield | mark |
| 16 | wield | wield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 strong | csubj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 axe | det |
| 18 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 axe | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 battle | punct |
| 20 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wield | obj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 deals | punct |
| 22 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 23 sword | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 deals | nsubj |
| 24 | deals | deal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 axe | acl:relcl |
| 25 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 blows | amod |
| 26 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 deals | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 deliver | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 deliver | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver | can | a warrior | me | now | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | present | a young giant | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wield | to-infinitive | the battle axe | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | |||||
| 4 | deal | present | sword | deadly blows | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme |
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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