The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 86
Her husband had eighteen heads, but when he quitted the lower regions for the surface of the earth, he left them all at home except one, which he changed for the head of a little dwarf, with a pointed beard.
Who acts: husband · What happens: have, quitt, leave, change · To what, where: eighteen heads, lower regions, heads, home
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 husband | nmod:poss |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 heads | nummod |
| 5 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 left | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 left | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 quitted | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 quitted | nsubj |
| 10 | quitted | quitt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 left | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 regions | det |
| 12 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 regions | amod |
| 13 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 quitted | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 surface | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 surface | det |
| 16 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 quitted | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 earth | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 earth | det |
| 19 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 surface | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 quitted | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 left | nsubj |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 left | obj |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 home | case |
| 26 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | obl |
| 27 | except | except | ADP | _ | 28 one | case |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 left | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 changed | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 changed | nsubj |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 changed | nsubj |
| 32 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 left | conj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 head | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 head | det |
| 35 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 changed | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 dwarf | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 dwarf | det |
| 38 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 dwarf | amod |
| 39 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 head | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 beard | punct |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 beard | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 beard | det |
| 43 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 beard | amod |
| 44 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 changed | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | girl's husband | eighteen heads | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | quitt | past | husband | the lower regions | for the surface of the earth | tree rules | |||
| 3 | leave | past | husband | heads = head | home | except one | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme at home=Location | ||
| 4 | change | past | for the head of a little dwarf; with a pointed beard | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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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