The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 86
So she cut off a long curl, and handed it to him.
Who acts: oldest · What happens: cut off, hand · To what, where: long curl, curl, longing
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oldest), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 cut | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 cut | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 curl | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 curl | amod |
| 7 | curl | curl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 handed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 handed | cc |
| 10 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 handed | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 handed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | past | oldest = old | a long curl | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector curl=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hand | past | oldest = old not said here | curl | longing | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Destination |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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