The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 86
But he cut off the head of the ram which always led the flock and had bells round its horns.
Who acts: son, ram · What happens: cut off, lead, have · To what, where: head, flock, bells
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, ram), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 cut | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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 | _ | 6 head | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 head | det |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 ram | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ram | det |
| 9 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 head | nmod |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 led | nsubj |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 led | advmod |
| 12 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ram | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 flock | det |
| 14 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 led | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 led | conj |
| 17 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 had | obj |
| 18 | round | round | ADP | _ | 20 horns | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 horns | nmod:poss |
| 20 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bells | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | past | son | the head of the ram | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | lead | past | the ram | the flock | always property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | past | the ram not said here | bells | round flock's horns | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Patient |
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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