The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 11
And whatever game he brought back the maiden with the golden hair knew how to dress it.
Who acts: game, golden hair · What happens: bring back, know, dress · To what, where: maiden, hair
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (game, golden hair), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 brought | cc |
| 2 | whatever | whatever | DET | PronType=Int | 3 game | det |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 brought | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 maiden | det |
| 8 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obj |
| 9 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 13 knew | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hair | det |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hair | amod |
| 12 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knew | nsubj |
| 13 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | advcl |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 dress | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 dress | mark |
| 16 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 knew | xcomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dress | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring back | past | whatever game | the maiden | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | past | the golden hair | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | dress | to-infinitive | the golden hair not said here | hair | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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