The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 58

But he said he was afraid it was very difficult, because the only way was to get a lock of hair from the head of a king’s daughter, to spin it, and to make from it a cloak for the giant, who lived up on the top of a high mountain.

Who acts: man · What happens: say, be, spin, make, live up · To what, where: head, lock, cloak, kindness, top · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 afraid	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	cop
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 difficult	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 difficult	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 difficult	advmod
10	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 afraid	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 get	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 get	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 way	det
14	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 way	amod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 get	obl:unmarked
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 get	cop
17	to	to	PART	_	18 get	mark
18	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 lock	det
20	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 get	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 hair	case
22	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lock	nmod
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 head	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 head	det
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 get	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 daughter	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 king	det
28	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 daughter	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 king	case
30	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 head	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 spin	punct
32	to	to	PART	_	33 spin	mark
33	spin	spin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 get	parataxis
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 spin	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 make	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 make	cc
37	to	to	PART	_	38 make	mark
38	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
39	from	from	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 make	obl
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 cloak	det
42	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 make	obj
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 giant	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 giant	det
45	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 make	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 lived	punct
47	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 lived	nsubj
48	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 make	parataxis
49	up	up	ADP	_	48 lived	compound:prt
50	on	on	ADP	_	52 top	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 top	det
52	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 lived	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	56 mountain	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 mountain	det
55	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 mountain	amod
56	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 top	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	past	man			afraid property	tree rules
3	is	past	man not said here			difficult property	tree rules
4	is	past			the head of a king's daughter	the only way obl:unmarked; get property	tree rules
5	spin	to-infinitive		lock			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	make	to-infinitive		a cloak	kindness	for the giant	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.material PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cloak=Product from it=Material for giant=Beneficiary
7	live up	past			the top of a high mountain		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=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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