The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 17
So the heads all began to talk to each other, and to ask what they should do for this girl who was so full of kindliness.
Who acts: heads, words, girl · What happens: begin, talk, ask, do, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heads, words, girl), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 began | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heads | det |
| 3 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 began | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 began | advmod |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 talk | mark |
| 7 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 each | case |
| 9 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 7 talk | obl |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 each | fixed |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ask | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ask | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 ask | mark |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 talk | conj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 do | obj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 do | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | aux |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ask | ccomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 girl | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 girl | det |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | obl |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 full | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 full | cop |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 full | advmod |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 girl | acl:relcl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 kindliness | case |
| 27 | kindliness | kindliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 full | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the heads | all property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | talk | to-infinitive | the heads not said here | to each | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to each=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | the heads not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do | should | words = word | for this girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | is | past | this girl | of kindliness; full property | 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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