English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 59
The young man then took up an axe and hewed off the monster's three heads.
Who acts: young man · What happens: take up, hew · To what, where: axe
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 took | advmod |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 took | compound:prt |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 axe | det |
| 8 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hewed | cc |
| 10 | hewed | hew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 took | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 heads | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 monster | det |
| 13 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heads | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 monster | case |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 heads | nummod |
| 16 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hewed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | the young man | a axe | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | |||
| 2 | hew | participle | the young man not said here | off the monster's three heads | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient off head=Co-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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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