The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 3
This news terrified him so much that he determined never to let his daughter be married, for he thought it was better to have no grandson at all than to be killed by his grandson.
Who acts: news, king, daughter, grandson · What happens: terrify, determine, not let, marry, think, be · To what, where: king, daughter, grandson, all · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news, king, daughter, grandson), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 news | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 terrified | nsubj |
| 3 | terrified | terrify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 terrified | obj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 terrified | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 determined | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 determined | nsubj |
| 9 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 terrified | advcl |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 let | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 let | mark |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 terrified | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 let | obj |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 married | aux:pass |
| 16 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 let | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thought | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 thought | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thought | nsubj |
| 20 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 terrified | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 better | expl |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 better | cop |
| 23 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 thought | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 have | mark |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 better | csubj |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 grandson | det |
| 27 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 all | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 have | obl |
| 30 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 33 killed | mark |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 killed | mark |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 killed | aux:pass |
| 33 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 better | advcl |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 grandson | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 grandson | nmod:poss |
| 36 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 killed | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 terrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | terrify | past | this news | king | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | determine | past | king | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not let | to-infinitive | this news not said here | king's daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | marry | infinitive · passive | king's daughter not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | king | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | past | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | have | to-infinitive | no grandson | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandson=Patient | ||||
| 8 | kill | to-infinitive · passive | king's grandson | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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