The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 20
‘Gold shall drop from her mouth whenever she speaks,’ said the third head.
Who acts: Gold, head, third head · What happens: drop, speak, say · To what, where: mouth · 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, third 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 | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 mouth | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drop | obl |
| 8 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 speaks | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 speaks | nsubj |
| 10 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 drop | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 drop | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 drop | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 head | det |
| 15 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 head | amod |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | shall | Gold | head's mouth | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from mouth=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present | head | whenever property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the third head | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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