The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 39
He was horribly frightened for he had a very small army, but he had to go all the same.
Who acts: news · What happens: frighten, have, go · To what, where: news, small army
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | aux:pass |
| 3 | horribly | horribly | ADV | _ | 4 frightened | advmod |
| 4 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 had | case |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 army | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 small | advmod |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 army | amod |
| 11 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 had | xcomp |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 same | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 same | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 go | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | news | horribly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | have | past | news | a small army | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | news | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | news not said here | same property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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