The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 57
(9) ‘Die Siebenkopfige Schlange,’ from Schmidt’s Griechische Mahrchen.
Who acts: 9 · What happens: die · To what, where: Siebenkopfige, Griechische
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (9), 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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 2 9 | punct |
| 2 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 Die | nsubj |
| 3 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 9 | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Die | punct |
| 5 | Die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | Siebenkopfige | Siebenkopfige | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Die | obj |
| 7 | Schlange | Schlange | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Siebenkopfige | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Siebenkopfige | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Siebenkopfige | punct |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 Griechische | case |
| 11 | Schmidt | Schmidt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Griechische | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Schmidt | case |
| 13 | Griechische | Griechische | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Siebenkopfige | nmod |
| 14 | Mahrchen | Mahrchen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Griechische | flat |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | infinitive | 9 | Siebenkopfige | Schmidt's Griechische | tree rules |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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