The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 43

‘Be off at once, you ugly Troll,’ said he; ‘do you think that I will have a towel that has been touched by your dirty fingers?’

Who acts: Troll, you, I, dirty fingers · What happens: say, think, have, touch · To what, where: towel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Troll, you, I, dirty fingers), 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	_	12 said	punct
2	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 off	cop
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 once	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 said	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Troll	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 Troll	nsubj
8	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Troll	amod
9	Troll	Troll	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 once	vocative
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Troll	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 once	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 think	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 think	punct
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 think	aux
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 think	nsubj
18	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 have	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 think	ccomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 towel	det
24	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 touched	nsubj:pass
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 touched	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 touched	aux:pass
28	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 towel	acl:relcl
29	by	by	ADP	_	32 fingers	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 fingers	nmod:poss
31	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fingers	amod
32	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 touched	obl
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 think	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Troll		once property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	think speech: other	present · do-support	you			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	have	future	I	a towel		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent towel=Patient
4	touch	present · perfect · passive	your dirty fingers	a towel		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-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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