The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 59
The dagger which was to act as a passport was sticking in Omar’s girdle.
Who acts: dagger · What happens: be, stick · To what, where: girdle
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 (dagger), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dagger | det |
| 2 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sticking | nsubj |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 act | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 act | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 act | mark |
| 6 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 dagger | acl:relcl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 passport | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 passport | det |
| 9 | passport | passport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 act | obl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sticking | aux |
| 11 | sticking | stick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 girdle | case |
| 13 | Omar | Omar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 girdle | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Omar | case |
| 15 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sticking | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sticking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dagger | as a passport; act property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stick | past · progressive | the dagger | Omar's girdle | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in girdle=Destination |
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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