The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 39
The slaughterer said he would do as she desired, chopped off the head, and nailed it firmly over the gateway.
Who acts: slaughterer, Falada, gate · What happens: say, do, desire, chop off, nail · To what, where: head, slaughterer, gateway · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (slaughterer, Falada, gate), 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 | 2 slaughterer | det |
| 2 | slaughterer | slaughterer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 desired | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 desired | nsubj |
| 9 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 chopped | punct |
| 11 | chopped | chop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 desired | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 head | det |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chopped | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 nailed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 nailed | cc |
| 17 | nailed | nail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 nailed | obj |
| 19 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 17 nailed | advmod |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 gateway | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 gateway | det |
| 22 | gateway | gateway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nailed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the slaughterer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | would | Falada | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | desire | past | gate | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | chop off | participle | gate not said here | the head | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 5 | nail | past | the slaughterer not said here | slaughterer | the gateway | firmly property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 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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