The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 88
But the thought of the eighteen heads warned him to be careful, and the third sister brought him a silk shirt which would make him ten times stronger than he was before.
Who acts: thought, third sister, silk shirt, Paul · What happens: warn, be, bring, make, think · To what, where: Paul, silk shirt, eighteen heads · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (thought, third sister, silk shirt, Paul), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 warned | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thought | det |
| 3 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 warned | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 heads | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 heads | det |
| 6 | eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 heads | nummod |
| 7 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thought | nmod |
| 8 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 warned | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 careful | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 careful | cop |
| 12 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 warned | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brought | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 brought | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sister | det |
| 16 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 sister | amod |
| 17 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | nsubj |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 warned | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 shirt | det |
| 21 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shirt | compound |
| 22 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | obj |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 make | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 make | aux |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 shirt | acl:relcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 make | obj |
| 27 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 times | nummod |
| 28 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 stronger | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 make | xcomp |
| 30 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 33 before | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 before | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 before | cop |
| 33 | before | before | ADV | _ | 29 stronger | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 warned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | past | the thought of the eighteen heads | Paul | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | careful property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bring | past | the third sister | a silk shirt | Paul | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination shirt=Theme | |||
| 4 | make | would | a silk shirt | Paul | strong property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | |||
| 5 | is | past | Paul | before property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | think | the eighteen heads | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=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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