The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 59

Then the old woman went to a barber, and spoke to him, saying, ‘I will give you all you ask if you will only cut off my head, so that I may become young and lovely.’

Who acts: old woman, I, you · What happens: go, speak, say, give, ask, cut off · To what, where: barber, all, you, head · 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 (old woman, I, you), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 barber	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 barber	det
8	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spoke	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 spoke	cc
11	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 spoke	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saying	punct
15	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 spoke	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 give	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 give	aux
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 saying	ccomp
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 give	iobj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 give	obj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 ask	nsubj
24	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 all	acl:relcl
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 cut	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 cut	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 cut	aux
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 cut	advmod
29	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ask	ccomp
30	off	off	ADP	_	29 cut	compound:prt
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 head	nmod:poss
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cut	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 become	punct
34	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	38 become	mark
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 so	fixed
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 become	nsubj
37	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 become	aux
38	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 give	advcl
39	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 become	xcomp
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 lovely	cc
41	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 young	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the old woman			then	to a barber	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to barber=Initial_Location
2	speak speech: other	past	the old woman not said here		barber			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the old woman not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give	future	I	all	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient all=Theme
5	ask speech: ask	present	you					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	cut off a condition, not said to happen	future	you	my head				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
7	become	may	I				young property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 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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