The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 102
How can the poor man have got such notions into his head?”
Who acts: poor man · What happens: get · To what, where: such notions, head
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 got | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | aux |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 notions | amod |
| 9 | notions | notion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 got | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | can · perfect | the poor man | such notions | man's head | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer notion=Stimulus |
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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