English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 19
“Wash me, and comb me, And lay me down softly.
Who acts: you · What happens: wash, comb, lay down · To what, where: golden head
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 Wash | punct |
| 2 | Wash | wash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Wash | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 comb | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 comb | cc |
| 6 | comb | comb | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Wash | conj |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 comb | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lay | cc |
| 10 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Wash | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 lay | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 lay | compound:prt |
| 13 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 10 lay | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wash | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash in a quote | imperative | you not said here | a golden head = head | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 2 | comb in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | a golden head = head | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lay down in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | a golden head = head | softly property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Result |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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