The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 77
‘Who is this who is breaking my wood?’ he screamed.
Who acts: Troll · What happens: break, scream · To what, where: wood
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), 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 breaking | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 breaking | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 breaking | aux |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 breaking | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 breaking | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 breaking | aux |
| 7 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 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 breaking | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 breaking | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 breaking | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 screamed | nsubj |
| 13 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 breaking | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 breaking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present · progressive | my wood | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wood=Patient | |||||
| 2 | scream speech: express | past | Troll | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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