English Fairy Tales, XLIII. the Three Heads of the Well., sentence 4

_A Head rises in the well_, Fair maiden, white and red, Stroke me smooth and comb my head, And thou shalt have some cockell-bread.

Who acts: Head, you, thou · What happens: rise, stroke, smooth, comb, have · To what, where: well, me, head, cockell bread

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIII. 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 (Head, you, thou), 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	_	4 rises	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 Head	det
3	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rises	nsubj
4	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 Stroke	advcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 well	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 well	det
7	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rises	obl
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 well	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 maiden	punct
10	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 maiden	amod
11	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 well	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 white	punct
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 maiden	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 red	cc
15	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 maiden	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Stroke	punct
17	Stroke	stroke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 Stroke	obj
19	smooth	smooth	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 Stroke	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 comb	cc
21	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 smooth	conj
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 comb	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
25	And	and	CCONJ	_	28 have	cc
26	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 have	nsubj
27	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	28 have	aux
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 Stroke	conj
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 bread	det
30	cockell	cockell	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bread	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 cockell	punct
32	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 Stroke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	rise	present	a Head		the well	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in well=Location
2	stroke	imperative	you not said here	me		tree rules
3	smooth	infinitive	you not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	comb	infinitive	you not said here	my head		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
5	have	shall	thou	some cockell bread		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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: «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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