The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 9
Then said the Princess, ‘I have on my head two different kinds of hair.
Who acts: Princess, I · What happens: say, have · To what, where: two different kinds, head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obl |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 kinds | nummod |
| 13 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 kinds | amod |
| 14 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hair | case |
| 16 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kinds | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | present | I | two different kinds of hair | my head | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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