The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 58

This question she repeated the whole day long, till at length the queen lost patience and said: ‘I had my old head cut off, and this new head grew in its place.’

Who acts: question, queen, I, old head, new head · What happens: repeat, lose, say, have, cut off, grow · To what, where: patience, old head, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (question, queen, I, old head), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 question	det
2	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 repeated	nsubj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 repeated	nsubj
4	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 repeated	obl:unmarked
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 repeated	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 length	punct
10	till	till	ADP	_	12 length	case
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 length	case
12	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 repeated	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 queen	det
14	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lost	nsubj
15	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 repeated	parataxis
16	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lost	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lost	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 head	amod
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
26	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 had	xcomp
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 cut	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 grew	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 grew	cc
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 head	det
31	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 head	amod
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 grew	nsubj
33	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 repeated	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 place	case
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 place	nmod:poss
36	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 grew	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 repeated	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	past	this question			till length; day	long property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	lose	past	the queen	patience				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	the queen not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	past	I	my old head				tree rules
5	cut off	participle	my old head not said here					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	grow	past	this new head		head's place			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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