The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 49
Dullhead bethought him of the little grey man, who could, he felt sure, help him; so he went off to the forest, and on the very spot where he had cut down the tree he saw a man sitting with a most dismal expression of face.
Who acts: Dullhead, man · What happens: bethink, feel, help, go off, cut down, see · To what, where: man, Dullhead, spot, tree
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dullhead, man), 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 | Dullhead | Dullhead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 bethought | nsubj |
| 2 | bethought | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bethought | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 7 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bethought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 could | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 could | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 felt | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 felt | nsubj |
| 14 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bethought | conj |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 felt | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 help | punct |
| 17 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 felt | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 help | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bethought | conj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 went | compound:prt |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 forest | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 forest | det |
| 26 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 spot | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 spot | cc |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 spot | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 spot | det |
| 31 | very | very | ADV | _ | 32 spot | advmod |
| 32 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 33 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 cut | advmod |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 cut | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 cut | aux |
| 36 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 spot | acl:relcl |
| 37 | down | down | ADP | _ | 36 cut | compound:prt |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 tree | det |
| 39 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cut | obj |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 saw | nsubj |
| 41 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 tree | acl:relcl |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 man | det |
| 43 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 saw | obj |
| 44 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 man | acl |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 49 expression | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 expression | det |
| 47 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 48 dismal | advmod |
| 48 | dismal | dismal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 expression | amod |
| 49 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 sitting | obl |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 face | case |
| 51 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 expression | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bethought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bethink | past | Dullhead | man | of the little grey man | tree rules | |||
| 2 | feel | past | Dullhead | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | help | infinitive | Dullhead not said here | Dullhead | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | go off | past | Dullhead | the spot | to the forest | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on spot=Location | |||
| 5 | cut down | past · perfect | Dullhead | the tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Product | ||||
| 6 | see | past | Dullhead | a man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | sit | gerund | a man not said here | with a dismal expression of face | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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