The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 48
He instantly unsheathed his sword and cut his way through with such vigour that he hardly received a scratch.
Who acts: Kinglet · What happens: unsheathe, cut, receive · To what, where: sword, way, such vigour, scratch
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 (Kinglet), 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 | 3 unsheathed | nsubj |
| 2 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 3 unsheathed | advmod |
| 3 | unsheathed | unsheathe | 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 sword | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 unsheathed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cut | cc |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 unsheathed | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 way | nmod:poss |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | obj |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 vigour | case |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 vigour | case |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 vigour | amod |
| 13 | vigour | vigour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | obl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 received | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 received | nsubj |
| 16 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 17 received | advmod |
| 17 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cut | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 scratch | det |
| 19 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 received | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 unsheathed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unsheathe | past | Kinglet | Kinglet's sword | instantly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cut | past | Kinglet not said here | Kinglet's way | such vigour | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product | |||
| 3 | receive | past | Kinglet | a scratch | hardly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scratch=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 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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