The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 128
But he took none of them, neither short nor tall, dark nor fair, plump nor thin, till at the last the crop-headed girl came out.
Who acts: mind, headed girl · What happens: take, head, come out · To what, where: none
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 (mind, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 none | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 short | punct |
| 8 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 short | cc:preconj |
| 9 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 took | parataxis |
| 10 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 tall | cc |
| 11 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 short | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dark | punct |
| 13 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 short | conj |
| 14 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 fair | cc |
| 15 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 short | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 plump | punct |
| 17 | plump | plump | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 short | conj |
| 18 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 thin | cc |
| 19 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 plump | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 last | punct |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 last | mark |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 last | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 last | det |
| 24 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 took | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 girl | det |
| 26 | crop | crop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 headed | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 crop | punct |
| 28 | headed | head | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 girl | amod |
| 29 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 came | nsubj |
| 30 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 last | acl:relcl |
| 31 | out | out | ADV | _ | 30 came | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | mind | none | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Theme | ||||
| 2 | head | participle | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | come out | past | the headed girl | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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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