The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 123
‘The ugly crop-headed girl that stands behind the door,’ replied the king.
Who acts: ugly headed girl · What happens: head, stand, reply · To what, where: door, king
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ugly headed girl), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 3 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 4 | crop | crop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 headed | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 crop | punct |
| 6 | headed | head | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 girl | amod |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 stands | nsubj |
| 9 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 girl | acl:relcl |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 door | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stands | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | head | participle | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | stand | present | the ugly headed girl | the door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind door=Location | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the ugly headed girl | the king | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic |
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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