The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 79
‘We shall have a tussle for that!’ screamed the Troll.
Who acts: We · What happens: have, scream · To what, where: tussle, 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 (We), 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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 screamed | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tussle | det |
| 6 | tussle | tussle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 tussle | nmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 11 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Troll | det |
| 13 | Troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 screamed | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | We | a tussle | for that | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tussle=Patient | |||
| 2 | scream speech: express | 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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