The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 42
‘Who is that who is touching my wood?’ said the Troll.
What happens: be, say · To what, where: Troll · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 7 touching | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 touching | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 touching | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 touching | mark |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 touching | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 touching | aux |
| 7 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wood | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 touching | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 touching | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 touching | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Troll | det |
| 14 | Troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · progressive | touch property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Troll | tree rules |
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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