Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 113
He struck the lad a stroke with the edge of his sword, and so cast his head off.
Who acts: friend · What happens: strike, cast off · To what, where: lad, head
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend), 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 struck | nsubj |
| 2 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lad | det |
| 4 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 struck | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stroke | det |
| 6 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 struck | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 edge | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 edge | det |
| 9 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 struck | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sword | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sword | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 edge | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cast | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cast | cc |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 cast | advmod |
| 16 | cast | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 struck | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cast | obj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 cast | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | friend | the lad | with the edge of friend's sword | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent lad=Patient stroke=Result with edge=Instrument | |||
| 2 | cast off | infinitive | friend not said here | friend's head | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Product |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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