English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 24
Then said the heads one to another: “What shall we weird for this damsel who has used us so kindly?”
What happens: say, use · To what, where: heads, us · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 heads | det |
| 4 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 said | obj |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 heads | flat |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 another | case |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 one | nmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 weird | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 weird | punct |
| 10 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 weird | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 weird | aux |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 weird | nsubj |
| 13 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 said | ccomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 damsel | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 damsel | det |
| 16 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 used | obl |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 used | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 used | aux |
| 19 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 weird | conj |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 used | obj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 kindly | advmod |
| 22 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 19 used | advmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 weird | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 weird | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the heads | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent head=Topic | ||||
| 2 | use in a quote | present · perfect · passive | us | for this damsel; kindly property | 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: «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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