The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 6

He, however, was very unlikely to do the Troll much injury, for no sooner had the Princess seated herself by the sea-shore than Ritter Red climbed up into a great tree which was standing there, and hid himself as well as he could among the branches.

Who acts: Ritter, Princess, Ritter Red, great tree · What happens: be, do, have, seat, climb up, stand · To what, where: Troll, Princess, sea shore, great tree, Ritter

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 (Ritter, Princess, Ritter Red, great tree), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 unlikely	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 He	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	7 unlikely	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 unlikely	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 unlikely	advmod
7	unlikely	unlikely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 unlikely	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Troll	det
11	Troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obj
12	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 injury	amod
13	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 had	mark
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 sooner	det
17	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 had	advmod
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 unlikely	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Princess	det
20	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 seated	nsubj
21	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 had	ccomp
22	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 seated	obj
23	by	by	ADP	_	27 shore	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 shore	det
25	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shore	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 sea	punct
27	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seated	obl
28	than	than	SCONJ	_	31 climbed	mark
29	Ritter	Ritter	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Red	compound
30	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 climbed	nsubj
31	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 shore	acl:relcl
32	up	up	ADV	_	31 climbed	advmod
33	into	into	ADP	_	36 tree	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 tree	det
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 tree	amod
36	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 climbed	obl
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 standing	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 standing	aux
39	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 tree	acl:relcl
40	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 standing	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 hid	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 hid	cc
43	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 unlikely	parataxis
44	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	43 hid	obj
45	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	43 hid	advmod
46	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	45 as	fixed
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 could	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 could	nsubj
49	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 hid	advcl
50	among	among	ADP	_	52 branches	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 branches	det
52	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 could	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 unlikely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Ritter			however, unlikely property	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	Ritter not said here	the Troll			tree rules
3	have	past				soon property	tree rules
4	seat	past	the Princess	Princess		by the sea shore	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Value
5	climb up	past	Ritter Red	the sea shore not said here	a great tree		tree rules
6	stand	past · progressive	a great tree		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	hide	past		Ritter			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient

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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