The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 65
The next morning she shaved his head on both sides, and hung the white beads round his neck, and said to him: “I am going to the fields to work, but you must stay at home.
Who acts: Ogre, I, husband · What happens: shave, hang, say, go, work, stay · To what, where: head, sides, white beads, husband, fields, home · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ogre, I, husband), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shaved | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 shaved | nsubj |
| 5 | shaved | shave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | 5 shaved | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 sides | case |
| 9 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 sides | det |
| 10 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shaved | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hung | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hung | cc |
| 13 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shaved | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 beads | det |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beads | amod |
| 16 | beads | bead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hung | obj |
| 17 | round | round | ADP | _ | 19 neck | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 neck | nmod:poss |
| 19 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hung | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hung | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 said | obl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 going | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 going | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 going | nsubj |
| 28 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 going | aux |
| 29 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 said | advcl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 fields | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fields | det |
| 32 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 going | obl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 work | mark |
| 34 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 going | advcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 stay | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 stay | cc |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 stay | nsubj |
| 38 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 stay | aux |
| 39 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 shaved | conj |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 home | case |
| 41 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 stay | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shaved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shave | past | Ogre | husband's head | both sides | morning | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||
| 2 | hang | past | the white beads | round husband's neck | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bead=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present · progressive | I | the fields | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | work in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | stay in a quote | must | husband | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
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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