The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 36
Then the kind youth dismounted, drew his sword, and killing his horse left it there as food for the young ravens.
Who acts: kind youth, killing · What happens: dismount, draw, kill, leave · To what, where: kind youth, sword, horse
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind youth, killing), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 drew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 youth | det |
| 3 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 youth | amod |
| 4 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drew | nsubj |
| 5 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 youth | acl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dismounted | punct |
| 7 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sword | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drew | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 left | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 left | cc |
| 12 | killing | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 left | csubj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 horse | nmod:poss |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 killing | obj |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 drew | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 left | obj |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 left | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 food | case |
| 19 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 ravens | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ravens | det |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ravens | amod |
| 23 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 left | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismount | participle | the kind youth not said here | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | draw | past | the kind youth | youth's sword | then | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||
| 3 | kill | gerund | youth's horse | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave | past | killing | sword | there | as food; for the young ravens | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme for raven=Recipient |
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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