The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 10
The wicked courtiers had their heads cut off, and all their property was taken away.
Who acts: wicked courtiers, heads · What happens: have, cut off, take away · To what, where: heads, property
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (wicked courtiers, heads), 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 | 3 courtiers | det |
| 2 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 courtiers | amod |
| 3 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 heads | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 had | xcomp |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 cut | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 taken | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 taken | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 property | det:predet |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 property | nmod:poss |
| 13 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 taken | aux:pass |
| 15 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 had | conj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 taken | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the wicked courtiers | courtiers's heads | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cut off | participle | courtiers's heads not said here | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | take away | past · passive | courtiers's property | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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