The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 76
Just then the Troll with nine heads came, and he was so frightful that the King’s daughter scarcely dared to look at him
Who acts: Troll, daughter · What happens: come, be, dare, look
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, daughter), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 came | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Troll | det |
| 4 | Troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 heads | case |
| 6 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 heads | nummod |
| 7 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Troll | nmod |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 frightful | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 frightful | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 frightful | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 frightful | cop |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 frightful | advmod |
| 14 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 came | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 dared | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 King | case |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dared | nsubj |
| 20 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 21 dared | advmod |
| 21 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 frightful | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 look | mark |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 dared | xcomp |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 look | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Troll with nine heads | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Troll | frightful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dare | past | the King's daughter | scarcely property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | the King's daughter not said here | at Troll | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at 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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