The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 121

“A wicked fairy enchanted me at my birth,” he said, “and for the rest of the world I must always be a head only.

Who acts: wicked fairy, fairy · What happens: enchant, say, be · To what, where: fairy, birth, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked fairy, fairy), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 enchanted	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fairy	det
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fairy	amod
4	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 enchanted	nsubj
5	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 enchanted	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 birth	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 birth	nmod:poss
9	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 enchanted	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 enchanted	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 enchanted	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 head	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 head	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 head	cc
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 rest	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rest	det
19	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 head	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 world	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 world	det
22	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rest	nmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 head	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 head	aux
25	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 head	advmod
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 head	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 head	det
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
29	only	only	ADV	_	28 head	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enchant in a quote	past	a wicked fairy	fairy	my birth		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	fairy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	must	fairy	a head		for the rest of the world; always property	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 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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