The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 83

His body was all one wound, and he could not even so much as tell the King’s daughter to take the horn of ointment out of the Troll’s belt and rub him with it.

Who acts: body · What happens: be, tell, take, rub · To what, where: one wound, daughter, horn, belt, 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 (body), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 body	nmod:poss
2	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wound	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wound	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	6 wound	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 wound	nummod
6	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 much	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 much	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 much	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 much	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 much	advmod
12	even	even	ADV	_	14 much	advmod
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wound	acl:relcl
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 tell	mark
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 much	acl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 daughter	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 King	case
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 take	mark
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tell	ccomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 horn	det
24	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 ointment	case
26	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 horn	nmod
27	out	out	ADP	_	32 belt	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 belt	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Troll	det
30	Troll	Troll	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 belt	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 Troll	case
32	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 rub	cc
34	rub	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 take	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 rub	obj
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 rub	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wound	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Troll's body	one wound			all property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive			the King's daughter			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic
3	take not said to happen	to-infinitive		the horn of ointment		the Troll's belt		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent horn=Theme out belt=Initial_Location
4	rub	infinitive			Troll		with horn	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with it=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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