The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 21
Also she was particular in having his head shaved in just the right way, with a tuft sticking straight up in the luckiest place.
Who acts: pigtail, head, tuft · What happens: be, have, shave, stick · To what, where: head, right way, luckiest place
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pigtail, head, tuft), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Also | also | ADV | _ | 4 particular | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 particular | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 particular | cop |
| 4 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 6 having | mark |
| 6 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 particular | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 having | obj |
| 9 | shaved | shave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 having | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 way | case |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 way | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 way | amod |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shaved | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tuft | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 tuft | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tuft | det |
| 18 | tuft | tuft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 particular | conj |
| 19 | sticking | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 tuft | acl |
| 20 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 21 up | advmod |
| 21 | up | up | ADV | _ | 19 sticking | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 place | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 place | det |
| 24 | luckiest | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 place | amod |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sticking | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 particular | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | pigtail | a tuft conj; particular property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | pigtail not said here | Hang's head | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shave | participle | Hang's head not said here | the right way | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | stick | gerund | a tuft not said here | the luckiest place | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in place=Destination |
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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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