The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 72
He had a garland upon his head, and a girdle of oak-leaves about his body, and carried an uprooted fir-tree in his right hand.
Who acts: beard · What happens: have, carry, uproot · To what, where: garland, uprooted fir tree, right hand
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beard), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 garland | det |
| 4 | garland | garland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 garland | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 girdle | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 girdle | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 girdle | det |
| 11 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 leaves | case |
| 13 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaves | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 oak | punct |
| 15 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 girdle | nmod |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 body | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 body | nmod:poss |
| 18 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaves | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 carried | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 carried | cc |
| 21 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 tree | det |
| 23 | uprooted | uproot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 tree | amod |
| 24 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tree | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 fir | punct |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carried | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 hand | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 hand | nmod:poss |
| 29 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 hand | amod |
| 30 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carried | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | beard | a garland | upon beard's head; a girdle of oak leaves about beard's body obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garland=Patient | |||
| 2 | carry | past | beard not said here | a uprooted fir tree | beard's right hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tree=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 3 | uproot | participle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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