The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 21

For some time it appeared quite uncertain which would be the victor, but at length the stag drove his antlers with such force into his opponent’s body that the bull fell to the ground with a terrific roar, and a few more strokes finished him.

Who acts: it, bull, few more strokes · What happens: appear, be, drive, fall, finish · To what, where: uncertain victor, antlers, length, body, bull

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, bull, few more strokes), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appeared	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 appeared	nsubj
5	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 uncertain	advmod
7	uncertain	uncertain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 victor	amod
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 victor	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 victor	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 victor	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 victor	det
12	victor	victor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appeared	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 drove	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 drove	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 length	case
16	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drove	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stag	det
18	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 length	nmod:unmarked
19	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 appeared	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 antlers	nmod:poss
21	antlers	antler	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 drove	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 force	case
23	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 force	amod
24	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drove	obl
25	into	into	ADP	_	29 body	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 opponent	nmod:poss
27	opponent	opponent	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 body	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 opponent	case
29	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drove	obl
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 fell	obl:unmarked
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bull	det
32	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fell	nsubj
33	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 body	acl:relcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 ground	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ground	det
36	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fell	obl
37	with	with	ADP	_	40 roar	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 roar	det
39	terrific	terrific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 roar	amod
40	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fell	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 finished	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 finished	cc
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 strokes	det
44	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 strokes	amod
45	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	46 strokes	amod
46	strokes	stroke	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 finished	nsubj
47	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 appeared	conj
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 finished	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	it			time		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	would		the uncertain victor				tree rules
3	drive	past		tailor's antlers	length the stag		with such force; into tailor's opponent's body	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent antler=Theme at length=Destination into body=Initial_Location
4	fall	past	the bull	tailor's opponent's body			to the ground; with a terrific roar	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme
5	finish	past	a few more strokes	bull				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality

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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