The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 55
Also the comb and scissors and razor that lie between the two ears of Trwyth the boar, so that I may arrange my hair for the wedding.
Who acts: comb, I · What happens: lie, arrange · To what, where: two ears, hair
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (comb, I), 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 | Also | also | ADV | _ | 9 lie | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 comb | det |
| 3 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lie | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 scissors | cc |
| 5 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 comb | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 razor | cc |
| 7 | razor | razor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comb | conj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lie | nsubj |
| 9 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 ears | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ears | det |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 ears | nummod |
| 13 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lie | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Trwyth | case |
| 15 | Trwyth | Trwyth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ears | nmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boar | det |
| 17 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Trwyth | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 arrange | punct |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 arrange | mark |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 so | fixed |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 arrange | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 arrange | aux |
| 23 | arrange | arrange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 lie | conj |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hair | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 arrange | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 wedding | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wedding | det |
| 28 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 arrange | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the comb and scissors and razor | the two ears of Trwyth | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between ear=Location | ||||
| 2 | arrange | may | I | my hair | for the wedding | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent hair=Product for wedding=Beneficiary |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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