The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 19

‘Can you fight?’ roared the Troll.

Who acts: you · What happens: fight, roar · To what, where: Troll

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (you), 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 fight	punct
2	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fight	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 fight	nsubj
4	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 roared	ccomp
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fight	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 fight	punct
7	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Troll	det
9	Troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roared	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 roared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	can	you						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	roar	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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