The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 3

“Bather says that he would rather lose Gullfaxi than lose them,” replied Helga, “for if the man who rides the horse is pursued he has only to throw the twig behind him and it will turn into a forest, so thick that even a bird could hardly fly through.

Who acts: Bather, Helga, man, twig, bird · What happens: say, lose, reply, ride, pursue, have · To what, where: Gullfaxi, things, horse, man, twig, forest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bather, Helga, man, twig), 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	_	3 says	punct
2	Bather	bather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 lose	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lose	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 lose	aux
7	rather	rather	ADV	_	8 lose	advmod
8	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 replied	advcl
9	Gullfaxi	Gullfaxi	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lose	obj
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 lose	mark
11	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 lose	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lose	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lose	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 lose	punct
15	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
16	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 replied	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 thick	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	47 thick	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 pursued	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 pursued	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pursued	nsubj
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 rides	nsubj
24	rides	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 man	acl:relcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 horse	det
26	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rides	obj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 pursued	aux:pass
28	pursued	pursue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 thick	advcl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 has	nsubj
30	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 pursued	conj
31	only	only	ADV	_	33 throw	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 throw	mark
33	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 has	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 twig	det
35	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 throw	obj
36	behind	behind	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 throw	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 turn	cc
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 turn	nsubj
40	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 turn	aux
41	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 throw	conj
42	into	into	ADP	_	44 forest	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 forest	det
44	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 turn	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 thick	punct
46	so	so	ADV	_	47 thick	advmod
47	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 replied	conj
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	54 fly	mark
49	even	even	ADV	_	51 bird	advmod
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 bird	det
51	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 fly	nsubj
52	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 fly	aux
53	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	54 fly	advmod
54	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 thick	advcl
55	through	through	ADV	_	54 fly	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Bather				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lose in a quote	would	Bather	Gullfaxi			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gullfaxi=Eventuality
3	lose in a quote	infinitive	Bather not said here	things = thing			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
4	reply speech: assert	past	Helga				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	ride in a quote	present	the man	the horse			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
6	pursue a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · passive		the man			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	have in a quote	present	man				tree rules
8	throw in a quote	to-infinitive	man not said here	the twig		behind man	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent twig=Theme behind he=Destination
9	turn in a quote	future	twig		a forest		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into forest=Trajectory
10	fly in a quote	could	a bird			hardly, through property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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