The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 92
But he raised his axe and cut off her head, and ran away like the wind.
Who acts: Halfman · What happens: raise, cut off, run away · To what, where: axe, head
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halfman), 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 | _ | 3 raised | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 raised | nsubj |
| 3 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 axe | nmod:poss |
| 5 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cut | cc |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 raised | conj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ran | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ran | cc |
| 13 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raised | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 ran | advmod |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 wind | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wind | det |
| 17 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ran | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | Halfman | Halfman's axe | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut off | participle | Halfman not said here | Mother's head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | run away | past | Halfman not said here | like the wind; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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