The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 58

He wrenched it off its hinges and held it over his head, and then went straight at the goblins, whom he crushed beneath it.

Who acts: soldier · What happens: wrench off, hold, go, crush · To what, where: door, head, goblins

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), 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 wrenched	nsubj
2	wrenched	wrench	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrenched	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 wrenched	compound:prt
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hinges	nmod:poss
6	hinges	hinge	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wrenched	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 held	cc
8	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wrenched	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 held	obj
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 head	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 head	nmod:poss
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 held	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 went	advmod
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wrenched	parataxis
17	straight	straight	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 goblins	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 goblins	det
20	goblins	goblin	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 went	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 whom	punct
22	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 crushed	obj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 crushed	nsubj
24	crushed	crush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 goblins	acl:relcl
25	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 crushed	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wrenched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrench off	past	soldier	door				tree rules
2	hold	past	soldier not said here	door	soldier's head			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme over head=Location
3	go	past				then	at the goblins; straight property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at goblin=Location
4	crush	past	soldier	the goblins			beneath door	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient

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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