English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 50
The first said: “Let her be struck with leprosy in her face.”
Who acts: first · What happens: say, let, strike · To what, where: first, face · 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: who acts (first), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Let | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Let | punct |
| 6 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Let | obj |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 struck | aux:pass |
| 9 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Let | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 leprosy | case |
| 11 | leprosy | leprosy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 face | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 face | nmod:poss |
| 14 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Let | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the first | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | first | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | strike in a quote | infinitive · passive | first not said here | first's face | with leprosy | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: in face=Location |
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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