The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 114
The barber bowed politely to his customer, and begging him to be seated, tied a large cloth round his neck, and rubbed his chin with soap; but instead of cutting off his beard, the barber made a snip at the end of his tail.
Who acts: barber, begging · What happens: bow, beg, seat, tie, rub, cut off · To what, where: barber, large cloth, chin, beard, snip, end
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, 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 (barber, begging), 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 | 2 barber | det |
| 2 | barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bowed | nsubj |
| 3 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 3 bowed | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 customer | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 customer | nmod:poss |
| 7 | customer | customer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bowed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seated | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seated | cc |
| 10 | begging | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 seated | csubj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 begging | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 seated | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seated | aux:pass |
| 14 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bowed | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tied | punct |
| 16 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 seated | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cloth | det |
| 18 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cloth | amod |
| 19 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tied | obj |
| 20 | round | round | ADP | _ | 22 neck | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 neck | nmod:poss |
| 22 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cloth | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rubbed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rubbed | cc |
| 25 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bowed | parataxis |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 chin | nmod:poss |
| 27 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rubbed | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 soap | case |
| 29 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rubbed | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 made | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 made | cc |
| 32 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 34 cutting | mark |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 instead | fixed |
| 34 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 made | advcl |
| 35 | off | off | ADP | _ | 34 cutting | compound:prt |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 beard | nmod:poss |
| 37 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 cutting | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 barber | punct |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 barber | det |
| 40 | barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 beard | conj |
| 41 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bowed | conj |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 snip | det |
| 43 | snip | snip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 made | obj |
| 44 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 end | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 end | det |
| 46 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 made | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 tail | case |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 tail | nmod:poss |
| 49 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 end | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | the barber | to barber's customer; politely property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to customer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | gerund | barber | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | seat | to-infinitive · passive | begging | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP» | |||||
| 4 | tie | participle | begging not said here | a large cloth | round barber's neck | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Patient | |||
| 5 | rub | past | barber's chin | with soap | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent chin=Destination with soap=Theme | ||||
| 6 | cut off | gerund | barber's beard and the barber | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector beard=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | make | past | the barber not said here | a snip | at the end of barber's tail | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset snip=Product |
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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