--- title: Luckily the blow was a hurried one, and the dagger glanced on is bre… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Luckily the blow was a hurried one, and the dagger glanced on is breastbone, so that, although he received a severe wound, his youth and strength quickly got the better of it. Who acts: blow, youth. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/100/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronge…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/) / 100 # The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 100 Luckily the blow was a hurried one, and the dagger glanced on is breastbone, so that, although he received a severe wound, his youth and strength quickly got the better of it. **Who acts:** blow, youth · **What happens:** hurry, be, glance on, receive, get · **To what, where:** hurried one, dagger, dagger breastbone, severe wound This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blow, youth), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3282:33:100 # text = Luckily the blow was a hurried one, and the dagger glanced on is breastbone, so that, although he received a severe wound, his youth and strength quickly got the better of it. 1 Luckily luckily ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 hurried hurry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 7 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 dagger dagger NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 12 glanced glance VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 breastbone breastbone NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 so so SCONJ IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 although although SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 received receive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 severe severe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 wound wound NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 xcomp _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hurry** | participle | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | past | the blow | a hurried one and dagger breastbone | | | | so that | tree rules | | 3 | **glance on** | participle | | the dagger *not said here* | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | the blow *not said here* | dagger breastbone | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **receive** | past | blow | a severe wound | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Theme | | 6 | **get** | past | blow's youth and strength | a severe wound *not said here* | | | | good, quickly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wound=Stimulus | 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/99/) - next →: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/101/) - ↑ back to [Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/)