The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 60
I will shave both sides of his head, and hang some white beads round his neck.
Who acts: I · What happens: shave, hang · To what, where: sides, white beads
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 shave | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 shave | aux |
| 3 | shave | shave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 sides | det |
| 5 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shave | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sides | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hang | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hang | cc |
| 11 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 shave | conj |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 beads | det |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 beads | amod |
| 14 | beads | bead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hang | obj |
| 15 | round | round | ADP | _ | 17 neck | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 neck | nmod:poss |
| 17 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hang | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shave | future | I | both sides of man's head | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hang | infinitive | I not said here | some white beads | round man's neck | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bead=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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