Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 49

Fetching a sword stroke at him with all his force, he hit him fair upon the neck, and made his bull head skip six yards from his human body, which fell down flat upon the ground.

Who acts: Theseus, bull head, six yards · What happens: fetch, hit, make, skip, fall down · To what, where: sword stroke, monster, six yards, human body

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Theseus, bull head, six yards), 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	Fetching	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 hit	advcl
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stroke	det
3	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stroke	compound
4	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fetching	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Fetching	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 force	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 force	det:predet
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 force	nmod:poss
10	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fetching	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fetching	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hit	nsubj
13	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hit	obj
15	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hit	xcomp
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 neck	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 neck	det
18	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fair	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 made	cc
21	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hit	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
23	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 head	compound
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 skip	nsubj
25	skip	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 made	ccomp
26	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 yards	nummod
27	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 skip	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	31 body	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 body	nmod:poss
30	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 body	amod
31	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 yards	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fell	punct
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 fell	nsubj
34	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 yards	acl:relcl
35	down	down	ADV	_	36 flat	advmod
36	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 fell	xcomp
37	upon	upon	ADP	_	39 ground	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 ground	det
39	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 flat	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 hit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fetch	gerund	Theseus not said here	a sword stroke		at Theseus; with Theseus's force	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent stroke=Theme at he=Asset
2	hit	past	Theseus	monster		fair property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
3	make	past	Theseus not said here				tree rules
4	skip	present	Theseus's bull head	six yards	Theseus's human body		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent yard=Theme from body=Trajectory
5	fall down	past	six yards			flat property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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