The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 172
They may threaten and force as they will, He turns from her, shrinks from her still,’
Who acts: eater, monster · What happens: threaten, force, turn, shrink · To what, where: child
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eater, monster), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threaten | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 threaten | aux |
| 3 | threaten | threaten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 force | cc |
| 5 | force | force | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 threaten | conj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 will | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 will | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 force | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turns | punct |
| 10 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 turns | nsubj |
| 11 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 threaten | parataxis |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 turns | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shrinks | punct |
| 15 | shrinks | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 turns | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 shrinks | obj |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 shrinks | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 threaten | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 threaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | may | eater | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | force | infinitive | eater not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | turn | present | monster | from child | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from she=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | shrink | present | monster not said here | child | still | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent her=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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