The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 34
“Then let the slaughterer cut off the head of the horse I rode here upon, because it behaved very badly on the journey.”
Who acts: you, slaughterer, husband · What happens: let, cut off, ride, behave · To what, where: slaughterer, head, horse, journey
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, slaughterer, husband), 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 | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 slaughterer | det |
| 5 | slaughterer | slaughterer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 let | obj |
| 6 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 slaughterer | acl |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 head | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 head | det |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cut | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 horse | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 horse | det |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 head | nmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 rode | nsubj |
| 14 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 horse | acl:relcl |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 rode | advmod |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 rode | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 behaved | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 behaved | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 behaved | nsubj |
| 20 | behaved | behave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 badly | advmod |
| 22 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 behaved | advmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 journey | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 journey | det |
| 25 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 behaved | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the slaughterer | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slaughterer=Theme | |||
| 2 | cut off in a quote | participle | the slaughterer not said here | the head of the horse | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | ride in a quote | past | husband | the horse not said here | here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||
| 4 | behave in a quote | past | slaughterer | the journey | badly property | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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