The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 56
My own hair-brush was in love with me, and lost all her hair in consequence.
Who acts: own hair brush · What happens: be, lose · To what, where: love, hair, consequence
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (own hair brush), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brush | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brush | amod |
| 3 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brush | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 hair | punct |
| 5 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 love | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 love | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 love | case |
| 8 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 love | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lost | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lost | cc |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 love | parataxis |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 hair | det:predet |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hair | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lost | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 consequence | case |
| 18 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lost | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | My own hair brush | love | with me | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lose | past | dancer's hair | consequence | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=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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