The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 131
Whereupon Charming cut off his head before he knew anything about it, and the raven from a tree close by croaked out:
Who acts: Charming, Pray · What happens: cut off, know, croak out · To what, where: head, anything
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charming, Pray), 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 | Whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 cut | advmod |
| 2 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 cut | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obj |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 knew | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 knew | nsubj |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | advcl |
| 10 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 knew | obj |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 anything | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 raven | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 raven | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 raven | det |
| 16 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 raven | nmod |
| 20 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tree | amod |
| 21 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 22 croaked | mark |
| 22 | croaked | croak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 cut | advcl |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 croaked | compound:prt |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | past | Charming | Pray's head | the raven from a tree obl; whereupon property | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | know | past | Pray | anything | about giant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | croak out | participle | Charming not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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