The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4, sentence 17
But you must quickly cut off his first head, and then wait till the next one comes up.
Who acts: you, next one · What happens: cut off, wait, come up · To what, where: first head
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, next one), 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 | _ | 5 cut | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 cut | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 cut | aux |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 5 cut | advmod |
| 5 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 cut | compound:prt |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 head | amod |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cut | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wait | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wait | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 wait | advmod |
| 13 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cut | conj |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 comes | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 one | det |
| 16 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 one | amod |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 comes | nsubj |
| 18 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wait | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 comes | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | must | you | monster's first head | quickly property | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | wait | infinitive | you not said here | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come up | present | the next one | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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