The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 65
But he fared no better than his brother, and in eight days his head was cut off.
Who acts: man · What happens: fare, cut off · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. 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 fared | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fared | nsubj |
| 3 | fared | fare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 better | advmod |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 fared | xcomp |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 brother | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 better | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cut | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cut | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 days | case |
| 12 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 days | nummod |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 cut | obl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 cut | aux:pass |
| 17 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fared | parataxis |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 cut | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fare | past | man | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cut off | past · passive | man's head | day | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
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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