The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 102
‘No better fate than to be put into a barrel lined with sharp nails, and to be rolled in it down the hill into the water.’
What happens: put, line, roll · To what, where: barrel, nail
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 fate | punct |
| 2 | No | no | ADV | _ | 3 better | advmod |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 fate | amod |
| 4 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 8 put | mark |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 put | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 put | aux:pass |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fate | acl:relcl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 barrel | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 barrel | det |
| 11 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 12 | lined | line | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 barrel | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 nails | case |
| 14 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 nails | amod |
| 15 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lined | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rolled | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rolled | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 rolled | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 rolled | aux:pass |
| 20 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 put | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rolled | obl |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 hill | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hill | det |
| 25 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rolled | obl |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 water | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 water | det |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rolled | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fate | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 fate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | to-infinitive · passive | a barrel | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» | |||||
| 2 | line | participle | a barrel not said here | with sharp nails | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with nail=Theme | ||||
| 3 | roll | to-infinitive · passive | nail | down the hill; into the water | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: in it=Source down hill=Trajectory into water=Destination |
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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