The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 99
He placed it on the head of his son Omar, kissed him on the forehead, and placed him on his right hand.
Who acts: king · What happens: place, kiss · To what, where: crown, head, king, forehead, right hand
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 placed | nsubj |
| 2 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 placed | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 head | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 head | det |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 son | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 head | nmod |
| 10 | Omar | Omar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 son | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kissed | punct |
| 12 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 placed | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kissed | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 forehead | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 forehead | det |
| 16 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kissed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 placed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 placed | cc |
| 19 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 placed | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 placed | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 hand | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hand | nmod:poss |
| 23 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hand | amod |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 placed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | king | crown | the head of king's son | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on head=Destination | |||
| 2 | kiss | past | king not said here | king | the forehead | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | place | past | king not said here | king | king's right hand | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on hand=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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