The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 161
That bloodthirsty monster, That man-eater grim, Shall nurse him, shall tend him no more.
Who acts: bloodthirsty monster · What happens: tend · To what, where: eye
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bloodthirsty monster), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 monster | det |
| 2 | bloodthirsty | bloodthirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 monster | amod |
| 3 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tend | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 eater | punct |
| 5 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 eater | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eater | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 8 | eater | eater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 monster | appos |
| 9 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 eater | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nurse | punct |
| 11 | Shall | Shall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 nurse | compound |
| 12 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eater | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 nurse | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 monster | punct |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 tend | aux |
| 16 | tend | tend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tend | obj |
| 18 | no | no | ADV | _ | 19 more | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 tend | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 tend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tend | shall | that bloodthirsty monster | eye | tree rules |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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