The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 56
Then Dullhead asked once more for his bride, but the King felt vexed at the idea of a stupid fellow whom people called ‘Dullhead’ carrying off his daughter, and he began to make fresh conditions.
Who acts: Dullhead, King, stupid fellow · What happens: ask, feel, vex, call, carry off, begin · To what, where: idea, people, daughter, fresh conditions · Speech: someone speaks here
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, King, stupid fellow), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | Dullhead | Dullhead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 asked | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 bride | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bride | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 more | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 felt | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 felt | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 felt | nsubj |
| 13 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | conj |
| 14 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 felt | xcomp |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 idea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 idea | det |
| 17 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 vexed | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 fellow | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fellow | det |
| 20 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fellow | amod |
| 21 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 idea | nmod |
| 22 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 carrying | nsubj |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 carrying | nsubj |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 people | acl |
| 25 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 Dullhead | punct |
| 26 | Dullhead | Dullhead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 called | xcomp |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 Dullhead | punct |
| 28 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 fellow | acl:relcl |
| 29 | off | off | ADP | _ | 28 carrying | compound:prt |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 31 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 carrying | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 began | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 began | cc |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 began | nsubj |
| 35 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 make | mark |
| 37 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 began | xcomp |
| 38 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 conditions | amod |
| 39 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 make | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Dullhead | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | the King | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | vex | participle | the King not said here | the idea of a stupid fellow | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | people not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | carry off | gerund | a stupid fellow | Dullhead's daughter | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | ||||
| 6 | begin | past | Dullhead | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | make | to-infinitive | Dullhead not said here | fresh conditions | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset condition=Product |
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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