The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 13
‘It is no use even to think of that; if the Troll catches sight of you he will take your life.’
Who acts: heaven, Troll · What happens: be, think, catch, take, sight · To what, where: use, sight, life, you
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heaven, Troll), 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 use | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 use | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 use | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 use | det |
| 5 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 think | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 think | mark |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 use | advcl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 that | case |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 think | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 catches | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 catches | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Troll | det |
| 14 | Troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 catches | nsubj |
| 15 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | conj |
| 16 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 catches | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 sight | nmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 take | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 take | aux |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 catches | ccomp |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 life | nmod:poss |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | heaven | no use | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | heaven not said here | of that | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | catch a condition, not said to happen | present | the Troll | sight of you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | future | Troll | your life | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sight | you | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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