The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 4
“The giant will trouble you no more,” said Geirald, holding out the head.
Who acts: giant, you, Geirald · What happens: trouble, no, say, hold out · To what, where: more, head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, you, Geirald), 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 trouble | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 giant | det |
| 3 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trouble | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 trouble | aux |
| 5 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 no | nsubj |
| 7 | no | no | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trouble | acl:relcl |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 no | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 trouble | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 trouble | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Geirald | Geirald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 holding | punct |
| 14 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 holding | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 head | det |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 holding | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trouble in a quote | future | the giant | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | no in a quote | present | you | more | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Geirald | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hold out | gerund | Geirald not said here | the head | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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