The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 84
No sooner did Ritter Red see that all danger was over than he crept down from the tree, and threatened the King’s daughter till he made her promise to say that he had rescued her.
Who acts: Ritter, danger, daughter · What happens: see, be, creep down, threaten, make, say · To what, where: tree, daughter, promise, Ritter · Speech: someone speaks here
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, danger, daughter), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 see | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 4 | Ritter | Ritter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 see | nsubj |
| 5 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ritter | flat |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 crept | mark |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 danger | det |
| 9 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 over | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 over | cop |
| 11 | over | over | ADV | _ | 14 crept | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 crept | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 crept | nsubj |
| 14 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | ccomp |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 crept | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crept | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 threatened | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 threatened | cc |
| 21 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 crept | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 King | det |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 King | case |
| 25 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 threatened | obj |
| 26 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 28 made | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 made | nsubj |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 threatened | advcl |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 promise | nmod:poss |
| 30 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 made | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 say | mark |
| 32 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 promise | acl |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 rescued | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 rescued | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 rescued | aux |
| 36 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 say | ccomp |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 rescued | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · do-support | Ritter | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | all danger | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | creep down | past | Ritter | the tree | down property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | threaten | past | Ritter not said here | the King's daughter | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus daughter=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | make | past | Ritter | daughter's promise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Ritter not said here | daughter's promise not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | rescue | past · perfect · passive | Ritter | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | promise | daughter | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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