The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 35
And as a sign that my words are true, look on these seven tongues, which I cut from his seven heads, and on this embroidered cloth, which was given me by your daughter.’
Who acts: words, you, I, daughter, my · What happens: be, look, cut, embroider, give, word · To what, where: sign, seven tongues, seven heads, embroidered cloth, me
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, you, I, daughter), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 look | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 sign | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sign | det |
| 4 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 true | mark |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 words | nmod:poss |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 true | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 true | cop |
| 9 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sign | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sign | punct |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 tongues | case |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 tongues | det |
| 14 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 tongues | nummod |
| 15 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 look | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cut | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 cut | obj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 cut | nsubj |
| 19 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tongues | acl:relcl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 heads | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 heads | nmod:poss |
| 22 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 heads | nummod |
| 23 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cut | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 cloth | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 cloth | cc |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 cloth | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 cloth | det |
| 28 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 cloth | amod |
| 29 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 given | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 given | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 given | aux:pass |
| 33 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 cloth | acl |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 given | iobj |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 daughter | case |
| 36 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 37 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 given | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 look | punct |
| 39 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | my words | a sign not said here | true property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | imperative | you not said here | as a sign; on this embroidered cloth; on this seven tongues | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on tongue=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cut | past | I | this seven tongues | man's seven heads | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent which=Product from head=Material | |||
| 4 | embroider | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | give | past · passive | your daughter | this embroidered cloth | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient i=Theme | |||
| 6 | word | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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