The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 95
So he took the eyes out of his own head and popped them into the head of the asp, and put the asp’s eyes in their place.
Who acts: fox · What happens: take, pop, put · To what, where: eyes, own head, sticks, head, place
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 eyes | det |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 head | amod |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 popped | cc |
| 12 | popped | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 popped | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 head | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 head | det |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 popped | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 asp | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 asp | det |
| 19 | asp | asp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 head | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 put | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 put | cc |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 asp | det |
| 24 | asp | asp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 asp | case |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 put | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 place | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 place | nmod:poss |
| 29 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | fox | the eyes | fox's own head | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme out head=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | pop | past | fox not said here | sticks = stick | into the head of the asp result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient into head=Result | |||
| 3 | put | infinitive | fox not said here | the asp's eyes | sticks's place | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Theme in place=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 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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