The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 52
To kill the giants, he thought, would be using the sword for the right; but as to winning the love of the princess, that was a thing which the son of a poor sheep-farmer need not hope for.
Who acts: Niels, that, thing · What happens: kill, think, use, win, be, son · To what, where: giants, sword, love, thing, princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Niels, that, thing), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 kill | mark |
| 2 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thought | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 giants | det |
| 4 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kill | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 kill | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 using | punct |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 using | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 using | aux |
| 11 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 thought | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sword | det |
| 13 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 using | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 right | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 right | det |
| 16 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 using | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 thing | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 thing | cc |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 winning | mark |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 as | fixed |
| 21 | winning | win | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 thing | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 love | det |
| 23 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 winning | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 princess | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 princess | det |
| 26 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 love | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 winning | punct |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 thing | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 thing | cop |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 thing | det |
| 31 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 need | nsubj |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 son | nsubj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 son | det |
| 34 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 thing | vocative |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 farmer | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 farmer | det |
| 37 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 farmer | amod |
| 38 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 farmer | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 sheep | punct |
| 40 | farmer | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 son | nmod |
| 41 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 need | advmod |
| 43 | hope | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 need | xcomp |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 hope | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | to-infinitive | Niels not said here | the giants | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Niels | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | use | would · progressive | Niels not said here | the sword | for the right | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent sword=Theme for right=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | win | gerund | that not said here | the love of the princess | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | that | a thing | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | son | a thing | of a poor sheep farmer | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | not need | present | a thing | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | hope not said to happen | infinitive | a thing not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 9 | love | the princess | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=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: «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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