The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 36
The princess saw her chance, and, with one swoop of her arm, severed her enemy’s head from his body.
Who acts: princess, one swoop, arm · What happens: see, sever, chance, swoop · To what, where: chance, head, body
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 (princess, one swoop, arm), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 chance | nmod:poss |
| 5 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 severed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 severed | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 swoop | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 swoop | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 swoop | nummod |
| 11 | swoop | swoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 severed | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 arm | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 arm | nmod:poss |
| 14 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swoop | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 swoop | punct |
| 16 | severed | sever | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 18 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 enemy | case |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 severed | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 body | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 body | nmod:poss |
| 23 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 severed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the princess | princess's chance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sever | past | one swoop of princess's arm | princess's enemy's head | swoop's body | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme from body=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | chance | princess | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | swoop | princess's arm | nom swoop «communication intransitive»: of=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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