The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 32
As he came on, with his sabre lifted high in the air, Sunlight bounded right over his head, so that the sword fell harmless.
Who acts: genius, sabre, Sunlight, sword · What happens: come on, lift, bound, fall · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (genius, sabre, Sunlight, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lifted | punct |
| 6 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 9 lifted | mark |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sabre | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sabre | sabre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lifted | nsubj |
| 9 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lifted | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 air | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 air | det |
| 13 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 high | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bounded | punct |
| 15 | Sunlight | Sunlight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 bounded | nsubj |
| 16 | bounded | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lifted | conj |
| 17 | right | right | ADV | _ | 20 head | advmod |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 head | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bounded | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fell | punct |
| 22 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 26 fell | mark |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 so | fixed |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sword | det |
| 25 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fell | nsubj |
| 26 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 bounded | conj |
| 27 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fell | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come on | past | genius | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lift | past | genius's sabre | high property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bound | past | Sunlight | genius's head | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location head=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | the sword | harmless property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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