The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 63
Can they all have been so heavy-hearted that they have all three hanged themselves?
Who acts: clothes, three · What happens: have, be, hange · To what, where: clothes
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clothes, three), 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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 all | aux |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 all | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 all | acl:relcl |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 hearted | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 hearted | advmod |
| 7 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hearted | advcl |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 heavy | punct |
| 9 | hearted | heart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 all | acl:relcl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hearted | ccomp |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 three | det |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hanged | nsubj |
| 15 | hanged | hange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | ccomp |
| 16 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 hanged | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | participle | heart property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | present | clothes | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hange | past | all three | clothes | tree rules |
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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