English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 23
“Now,” said the wicked woman, “lay your head down on the billet whilst I part your hair.”
Who acts: wicked woman · What happens: say, lay down, part · To what, where: head, billet, hair · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked woman), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lay | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 lay | punct |
| 11 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | obj |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 lay | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 billet | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 billet | det |
| 17 | billet | billet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | obl |
| 18 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 20 part | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 part | nsubj |
| 20 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | parataxis |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hair | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 part | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the wicked woman | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lay down in a quote | infinitive | the wicked woman not said here | your head | the billet | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on billet=Destination | ||
| 3 | part in a quote | the wicked woman = woman | your hair | 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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