The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 36

Then the lady said that to kill the dreadful woman with the golden wings and the brass claws, and to cut off her head, he needed three things: first, a Cap of Darkness, which would make him invisible when he wore it; next, a Sword of Sharpness, which would cleave iron at one blow; and last, the Shoes of Swiftness, with which he might fly in the air.

Who acts: lady, boy, Cap, Sword · What happens: say, kill, cut off, need, make, wear · To what, where: dreadful woman, head, three things, boy, iron, one blow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, boy, Cap, Sword), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lady	det
3	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 kill	mark
6	to	to	PART	_	7 kill	mark
7	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kill	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 wings	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wings	det
13	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wings	amod
14	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kill	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 claws	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 claws	det
17	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 claws	compound
18	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wings	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cut	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cut	cc
21	to	to	PART	_	22 cut	mark
22	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 cut	compound:prt
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cut	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 needed	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 needed	nsubj
28	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
29	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 things	nummod
30	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 needed	obj
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 first	punct
32	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 things	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 make	punct
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 Cap	det
35	Cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 make	nsubj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Darkness	case
37	Darkness	Darkness	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Cap	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 make	punct
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 make	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 make	aux
41	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 needed	conj
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 make	obj
43	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 make	xcomp
44	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	46 wore	advmod
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 wore	nsubj
46	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 make	advcl
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 wore	obj
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 cleave	punct
49	next	next	ADV	_	58 cleave	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 next	punct
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 Sword	det
52	Sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 cleave	nsubj
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 Sharpness	case
54	Sharpness	Sharpness	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Sword	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 cleave	punct
56	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 cleave	nsubj
57	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 cleave	aux
58	cleave	cleave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	conj
59	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 cleave	obj
60	at	at	ADP	_	62 blow	case
61	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	62 blow	nummod
62	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 cleave	obl
63	;	;	PUNCT	_	65 last	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 last	cc
65	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 Shoes	punct
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 Shoes	det
68	Shoes	Shoe	PROPN	Number=Plur	65 last	appos
69	of	of	ADP	_	70 Swiftness	case
70	Swiftness	Swiftness	PROPN	Number=Sing	68 Shoes	nmod
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	76 fly	punct
72	with	with	ADP	_	73 which	case
73	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	76 fly	obl
74	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	76 fly	nsubj
75	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	76 fly	aux
76	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	conj
77	in	in	ADP	_	79 air	case
78	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	79 air	det
79	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 fly	obl
80	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the lady			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	kill	to-infinitive		the dreadful woman			with the golden wings and the brass claws	vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent woman=Patient with wing=Instrument
3	cut off	to-infinitive		mother's head				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
4	need	past	boy	three things				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme
5	make	would	a Cap of Darkness	boy			invisible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product
6	wear	past	boy	Head				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	cleave	would	a Sword of Sharpness	iron	one blow		next property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Patient
8	fly	might	boy		the air			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in air=Location

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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