The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 66
‘Fire!’ roared the Troll.
Who acts: Fire · What happens: 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 (Fire), 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 | _ | 2 Fire | punct |
| 2 | Fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 roared | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fire | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fire | punct |
| 5 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Troll | det |
| 7 | Troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 roared | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar | past | Fire | the Troll | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location troll=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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