The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 17
What had put it into your head to think of such a thing?
What happens: put, think · To what, where: sheep, head
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 put | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | aux |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 think | mark |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 put | advcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 thing | case |
| 11 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 thing | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 thing | det |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 think | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · perfect · passive | sheep | your head | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset it=Goal | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | of such thing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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