The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 58
Dullhead did not wait to consider long but went straight off to the forest, and there on the same spot sat a man who was drawing in a strap as tight as he could round his body, and making a most woeful face the while.
Who acts: Dullhead, man · What happens: not wait, consider, go, sit, draw, round · To what, where: forest, man, same spot, strap, body, woeful face
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 | 4 wait | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 wait | advmod |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 consider | mark |
| 6 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wait | xcomp |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 consider | xcomp |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | conj |
| 10 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 off | advmod |
| 11 | off | off | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 forest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sat | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sat | cc |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 sat | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 spot | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 spot | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 spot | amod |
| 21 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sat | obl |
| 22 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sat | obj |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 drawing | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 drawing | aux |
| 27 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 man | acl:relcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 strap | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 strap | det |
| 30 | strap | strap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 drawing | obl |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | _ | 32 tight | advmod |
| 32 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 strap | amod |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 round | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 round | nsubj |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 round | aux |
| 36 | round | round | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 drawing | advcl |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 body | nmod:poss |
| 38 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 round | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 making | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 making | cc |
| 41 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 sat | advcl |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 face | det |
| 43 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 44 woeful | advmod |
| 44 | woeful | woeful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 face | amod |
| 45 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 making | obj |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 while | det |
| 47 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 making | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait | past · do-support | Dullhead | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | consider | to-infinitive | Dullhead not said here | long property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Dullhead not said here | the forest | off property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | sit | past | Dullhead not said here | a man | the same spot; there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent man=Theme on spot=Location | |||
| 5 | draw | past · progressive | a man | a strap | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in strap=Destination | ||||
| 6 | round | could | Dullhead | Dullhead's body | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent body=Patient | ||||
| 7 | make | gerund | Dullhead not said here | a woeful face | while | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset face=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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