The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 19
‘Gold shall drop from her hair whenever she brushes it,’ said the second.
Who acts: Gold, head · What happens: drop, brush, say · To what, where: hair, Gold, second · 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 (Gold, head), 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 | _ | 4 drop | punct |
| 2 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drop | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 drop | aux |
| 4 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 hair | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hair | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drop | obl |
| 8 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 brushes | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brushes | nsubj |
| 10 | brushes | brush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 drop | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brushes | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 drop | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 drop | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 second | det |
| 16 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | shall | Gold | head's hair | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from hair=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | brush | present | head | Gold | whenever property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the second | 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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