The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 40
The evil one must have put them into your head.”
What happens: put · To what, where: evil one, head
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 put | aux |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 put | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | must · perfect · passive | the evil one | your head | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset they=Goal |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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