The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 118
‘She agreed to the scheme I proposed, and, cutting off the child’s finger, by her direction I soon had it at the house she told me of, and brought her the little pig in the place of it.
Who acts: woman, I · What happens: agree, propose, cut off, have, tell, bring · To what, where: scheme, finger, house, me, little pig, woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, 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 | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 scheme | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 scheme | det |
| 6 | scheme | scheme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 agreed | obl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 proposed | nsubj |
| 8 | proposed | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 scheme | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cutting | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cutting | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cutting | punct |
| 12 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 agreed | advcl |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 cutting | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 child | det |
| 15 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 finger | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 child | case |
| 17 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cutting | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 direction | punct |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 direction | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 direction | nmod:poss |
| 21 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cutting | parataxis |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 had | nsubj |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 had | advmod |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 direction | acl:relcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 had | obj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 house | det |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | obl |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 told | nsubj |
| 30 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 direction | parataxis |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 told | iobj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 told | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 brought | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 brought | cc |
| 35 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | conj |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 brought | obj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 pig | det |
| 38 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 pig | amod |
| 39 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 brought | obj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 place | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 place | det |
| 42 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 brought | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 it | case |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 place | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | woman | to the scheme | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | propose | past | I | the scheme not said here | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scheme=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cut off | gerund | woman not said here | the child's finger | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector finger=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | have | past | I | finger | the house | soon property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | woman | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | bring | past | woman not said here | the little pig | woman | the place of finger | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination pig=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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