The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 66
The very minute that the compact with the devil had come to an end his beard was shaved, his hair was cut, and his rags were burned, and day and night he lay in a bath of clear warm water.
Who acts: compact, hair · What happens: come, shave, cut, burn, lie · To what, where: beard, minute, hair, rags, bath
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (compact, hair), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 minute | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 minute | advmod |
| 3 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shaved | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 come | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 compact | det |
| 6 | compact | compact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | nsubj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 devil | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 devil | det |
| 9 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 compact | nmod |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 minute | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 end | det |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 beard | nmod:poss |
| 16 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 shaved | aux:pass |
| 18 | shaved | shave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cut | punct |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hair | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cut | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 cut | aux:pass |
| 23 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 shaved | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 burned | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 burned | cc |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 rags | nmod:poss |
| 27 | rags | rag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 burned | aux:pass |
| 29 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 shaved | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 lay | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 lay | cc |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lay | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 night | cc |
| 34 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 day | conj |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 lay | nsubj |
| 36 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 shaved | parataxis |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 bath | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 bath | det |
| 39 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lay | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 water | case |
| 41 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 water | amod |
| 42 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 water | amod |
| 43 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 bath | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 shaved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | the compact with the devil | devil's beard | to a end | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location minute=Theme | |||
| 2 | shave | past · passive | the minute | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | cut | past · passive | devil's hair | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 4 | burn | past · passive | devil's rags | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | lie | past | hair | a bath of clear warm water | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bath=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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