The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 78
Your mistress cuts off men’s heads because of this riddle; what is at the bottom of it, and why does she do it?”
Who acts: mistress, rose · What happens: cut off, be, do · To what, where: heads, bottom, mistress
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistress, rose), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cuts | nsubj |
| 3 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 cuts | compound:prt |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 heads | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 men | case |
| 7 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cuts | obj |
| 8 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 11 riddle | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 because | fixed |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 riddle | det |
| 11 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cuts | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 bottom | punct |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 bottom | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 bottom | cop |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 bottom | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bottom | det |
| 17 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cuts | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bottom | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 do | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 do | cc |
| 22 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 do | advmod |
| 23 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 do | aux |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 do | nsubj |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cuts | advcl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 do | obj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 25 do | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | present | Your mistress | men's heads | because this riddle | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | present | the bottom | of mistress | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | present · do-support | rose | mistress | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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