The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 57
He required Dullhead to find a man who could eat a mountain of bread.
Who acts: Dullhead, man · What happens: require, find, eat · To what, where: Dullhead, man, mountain
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 required | nsubj |
| 2 | required | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Dullhead | Dullhead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 required | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 required | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 eat | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 eat | aux |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 man | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mountain | det |
| 12 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eat | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bread | case |
| 14 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mountain | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 required | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | require | past | Dullhead | Dullhead | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent dullhead=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | Dullhead not said here | a man | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 3 | eat | could | a man | a mountain of bread | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient |
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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