The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 37
He lowered his head and rushed forward amidst a storm of blows, which he returned with his fists.
Who acts: soldier, blows · What happens: lower, rush, return, storm · To what, where: head, blows
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, blows), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lowered | nsubj |
| 2 | lowered | lower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lowered | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 rushed | cc |
| 6 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lowered | conj |
| 7 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 6 rushed | advmod |
| 8 | amidst | amidst | ADP | _ | 10 storm | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 storm | det |
| 10 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rushed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 blows | case |
| 12 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 storm | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 returned | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 returned | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 returned | nsubj |
| 16 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 blows | acl:relcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 fists | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 fists | nmod:poss |
| 19 | fists | fist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 returned | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lowered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lower | past | soldier | soldier's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rush | past | soldier not said here | amidst a storm of blows; forward property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return | past | soldier | blows | with soldier's fists | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 4 | storm | blows | nom storm «phenomenon 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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