The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 97
‘Yes,’ said the King, ‘I had another daughter, but the Troll carried her away because there was no one who could deliver her.
Who acts: King, I, Troll, one · What happens: say, have, carry away, be, deliver · To what, where: daughter · 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 (King, I, Troll, one), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 daughter | det |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 carried | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 carried | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Troll | det |
| 17 | Troll | Troll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 carried | nsubj |
| 18 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 carried | obj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 carried | advmod |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 was | mark |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 was | expl |
| 23 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 carried | advcl |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 one | det |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 was | nsubj |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 deliver | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 deliver | aux |
| 28 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 one | acl:relcl |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 deliver | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have | past | I | another daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 3 | carry away | past | the Troll | daughter | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 4 | be | past | no one | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | deliver | could | no one | daughter | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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