The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 219
‘Now I’ll comb your hair properly for you, for once in the way.’
Who acts: I · What happens: comb · To what, where: hair
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 (I), 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 | _ | 5 comb | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 comb | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 comb | nsubj |
| 4 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 comb | aux |
| 5 | comb | comb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hair | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comb | obj |
| 8 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 5 comb | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 comb | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 once | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 once | case |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 comb | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 way | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 once | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 comb | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 comb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comb | future | I | your hair | now | for you; once, properly property | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent hair=Location for you=Theme |
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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