--- title: Fetching a sword stroke at him with all his force, he hit him fair u… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg976:6:49 # text = 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. 1 Fetching fetch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 advcl _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 stroke stroke NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obl _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 10 det:predet _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 16 upon upon ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 skip skip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 26 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 yards yard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 35 down down ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ _ 37 upon upon ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/6/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/6/50/) - ↑ back to [The Minotaur., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/6/)