The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 18
My brother the Red Gruagach will take the head off Manus as well in Old Bergen as elsewhere.'
Who acts: brother · What happens: take off · To what, where: head, Old Bergen
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Gruagach | det |
| 4 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Gruagach | flat |
| 5 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 take | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 head | det |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 take | compound:prt |
| 11 | Manus | manus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 7 take | advmod |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 as | fixed |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Bergen | case |
| 15 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Bergen | amod |
| 16 | Bergen | Bergen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 elsewhere | case |
| 18 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 7 take | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | future | My brother | the head | Old Bergen | tree rules |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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