The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 51
A Troll with six heads lives here, who is the owner of the wood, and I do not think I should be able to overcome him.’
Who acts: Troll, I · What happens: live, be, not think, overcome · To what, where: owner, 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: who acts (Troll, I), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Troll | det |
| 2 | Troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lives | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 heads | case |
| 4 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 heads | nummod |
| 5 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Troll | nmod |
| 6 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lives | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 owner | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 owner | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 owner | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 owner | det |
| 12 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lives | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 wood | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wood | det |
| 15 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 owner | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 think | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 think | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 think | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 think | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 think | advmod |
| 21 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lives | conj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 able | nsubj |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 able | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 able | cop |
| 25 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 think | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 overcome | mark |
| 27 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 able | xcomp |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 overcome | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lives | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | a Troll with six heads | here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the owner | of the wood | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not think speech: other | present · do-support | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | should | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | overcome | to-infinitive | I not said here | Troll | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=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 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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