The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 74

Motikatika went out directly, and brought back quite a crowd of babies, and shaved their heads and hung white beads round their little black necks, and just as he had finished, the ground began to shake, and the huge ogre came striding along, crying: “Motikatika!

Who acts: Motikatika, ground, huge ogre · What happens: go out, bring back, shave, hang, finish, begin · To what, where: crowd, heads, white beads, Motikatika

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 (Motikatika, ground, huge ogre), 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	Motikatika	Motikatika	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	directly	directly	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 brought	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 brought	cc
7	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 brought	advmod
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 crowd	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 crowd	det
11	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brought	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 babies	case
13	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 crowd	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shaved	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shaved	cc
16	shaved	shave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 heads	nmod:poss
18	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 shaved	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hung	cc
20	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 shaved	conj
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 beads	amod
22	beads	bead	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hung	obj
23	round	round	ADP	_	27 necks	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 necks	nmod:poss
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 necks	amod
26	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 necks	amod
27	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hung	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 finished	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 finished	cc
30	just	just	ADV	_	34 finished	advmod
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 finished	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 finished	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 finished	aux
34	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 went	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 began	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ground	det
37	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 began	nsubj
38	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
39	to	to	PART	_	40 shake	mark
40	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 began	xcomp
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 came	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 came	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 ogre	det
44	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 ogre	amod
45	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 came	nsubj
46	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 began	conj
47	striding	stride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 came	advcl
48	along	along	ADV	_	47 striding	advmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 crying	punct
50	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 striding	conj
51	:	:	PUNCT	_	53 Motikatika	punct
52	“	"	PUNCT	_	53 Motikatika	punct
53	Motikatika	Motikatika	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 came	obl
54	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go out	past	Motikatika		directly, out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bring back	past	Motikatika not said here	a crowd of babies		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent crowd=Theme
3	shave	past		bones's heads		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	hang	past		white beads	round beads's little black necks	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bead=Patient
5	finish	past · perfect	Motikatika			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	begin	past	the ground			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	shake	to-infinitive	the ground not said here			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
8	come	past	the huge ogre	Motikatika		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	stride	gerund	the huge ogre not said here		along property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	cry speech: express	gerund	the huge ogre not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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