The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 203
But instead of fastening his teeth in the neck of a beautiful maiden, Schippeitaro’s teeth were fastened in HIM, and the youth ran up and cut off his head with his sword.
Who acts: youth · What happens: fasten, run up, cut off · To what, where: teeth, neck, HIM, head
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 fastened | cc |
| 2 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 4 fastening | mark |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 2 instead | fixed |
| 4 | fastening | fasten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 fastened | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fastening | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 neck | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 neck | det |
| 9 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fastening | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 maiden | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 maiden | det |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 maiden | amod |
| 13 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 neck | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fastening | punct |
| 15 | Schippeitaro | Schippeitaro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Schippeitaro | case |
| 17 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fastened | aux:pass |
| 19 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 HIM | case |
| 21 | HIM | HIM | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 fastened | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ran | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ran | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 youth | det |
| 25 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ran | nsubj |
| 26 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fastened | parataxis |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 ran | compound:prt |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 cut | cc |
| 29 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 ran | conj |
| 30 | off | off | ADP | _ | 29 cut | compound:prt |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 head | nmod:poss |
| 32 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cut | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 sword | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 sword | nmod:poss |
| 35 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cut | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | gerund | man's teeth | the neck of a beautiful maiden | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fasten | past · passive | Schippeitaro's teeth | HIM | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | run up | past | the youth | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cut off | participle | the youth not said here | man's head | with man's sword | 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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