The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 44
He then asked that the heads should be removed from the battlements and given decent burial.
Who acts: latter · What happens: ask, remove, give · To what, where: heads, battlements, decent burial · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (latter), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 asked | advmod |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 removed | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heads | det |
| 6 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 removed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 removed | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 removed | aux:pass |
| 9 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 battlements | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 battlements | det |
| 12 | battlements | battlement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 removed | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 given | cc |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 removed | conj |
| 15 | decent | decent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 burial | amod |
| 16 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 given | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | latter | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | remove | should · passive | the heads | the battlements | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from battlement=Source | ||||
| 3 | give | participle | decent burial | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burial=Theme |
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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