English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 17
At once her brothers and her friends drew their swords and cut Mr. Fox into a thousand pieces.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: draw, cut · To what, where: swords, thousand pieces
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 once | case |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 drew | obl |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drew | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 friends | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friends | nmod:poss |
| 7 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brothers | conj |
| 8 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 swords | nmod:poss |
| 10 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drew | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Fox | cc |
| 12 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Fox | amod |
| 13 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Fox | compound |
| 14 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swords | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 pieces | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 thousand | det |
| 17 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 pieces | nummod |
| 18 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drew | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Fox's brothers and Fox's friends | brothers's swords and cut Mr. Fox | into thousand pieces result | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sword=Patient into piece=Result | |||
| 2 | cut | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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