The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 72

“Collect all the babies in the village the same size as yourself,” answered the bones; “shave the sides of their heads, and hang white beads round their necks, and tell them that when anybody calls ‘Motikatika,’ they are to answer to it.

Who acts: you, bones, anybody · What happens: collect, answer, shave, hang, tell, call · To what, where: babies, village, sides, white beads, beads, neck · 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 (you, bones, anybody), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Collect	punct
2	Collect	collect	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 babies	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 babies	det
5	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Collect	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 village	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 village	det
8	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Collect	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 size	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 size	amod
11	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Collect	obl:unmarked
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 yourself	case
13	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 Collect	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Collect	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Collect	punct
16	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Collect	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bones	det
18	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 answered	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 shave	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 shave	punct
21	shave	shave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Collect	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sides	det
23	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 shave	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 heads	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 heads	nmod:poss
26	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sides	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hang	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hang	cc
29	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 shave	conj
30	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 beads	amod
31	beads	bead	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hang	obj
32	round	round	ADP	_	34 necks	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 necks	nmod:poss
34	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hang	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 tell	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 tell	cc
37	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 shave	conj
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 tell	iobj
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 calls	mark
40	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	42 calls	advmod
41	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	42 calls	nsubj
42	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 tell	advcl
43	‘	'	PUNCT	_	44 Motikatika	punct
44	Motikatika	Motikatika	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 calls	xcomp
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 are	punct
46	’	'	CCONJ	_	48 are	cc
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 are	nsubj
48	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Collect	conj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 answer	mark
50	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 are	xcomp
51	to	to	ADP	_	52 it	case
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 answer	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Collect	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	collect in a quote	imperative	you not said here	all babies		the village	as yourself; the same size obl:unmarked	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past	the bones					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	shave in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the sides of bones's heads				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient
4	hang in a quote	present	you not said here	white beads			round bones's necks	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bead=Patient
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		beads = bead			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
6	call in a quote	present	anybody					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	does in a quote	present	bones = bone					tree rules
8	answer speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	bones = bone not said here		neck			vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to it=Co-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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