The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 71

The Bull told the King’s daughter that on no account was she to touch it, for there was a Troll with nine heads who was the owner, and that he was much larger and stronger than both the others put together, and that he did not believe that he could overcome him.

Who acts: Bull, daughter, Troll, nine heads, others · What happens: tell, be, put together, not believe, overcome · To what, where: daughter, account, 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 (Bull, daughter, Troll, nine heads), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Bull	det
2	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 daughter	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 King	case
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 touch	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 account	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 account	det
11	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 touch	obl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 touch	cop
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 touch	nsubj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 touch	mark
15	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 daughter	acl:relcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 touch	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 was	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 was	mark
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 was	expl
20	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 Troll	det
22	Troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 was	nsubj
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 heads	case
24	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 heads	nummod
25	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 Troll	nmod
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 owner	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 owner	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 owner	det
29	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heads	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 larger	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 larger	cc
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 larger	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 larger	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 larger	cop
35	much	much	ADV	_	36 larger	advmod
36	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 told	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 stronger	cc
38	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 larger	conj
39	than	than	SCONJ	_	43 put	mark
40	both	both	CCONJ	_	43 put	cc:preconj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 others	det
42	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 put	nsubj
43	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 larger	advcl
44	together	together	ADV	_	43 put	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 believe	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 believe	cc
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 believe	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 believe	nsubj
49	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 believe	aux
50	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 believe	advmod
51	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	parataxis
52	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 overcome	mark
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 overcome	nsubj
54	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 overcome	aux
55	overcome	overcome	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 believe	ccomp
56	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 overcome	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Bull		the King's daughter			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient
2	is	past	daughter			no account	touch property	tree rules
3	be	past	a Troll with nine heads			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past	nine heads	the owner				tree rules
5	is	past	bull				large property	tree rules
6	be		bull not said here					tree rules
7	put together	past	the others				together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
8	not believe	past · do-support	bull					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	overcome	could	bull	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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