The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 19

‘Ah! if only the Troll were not so quick-tempered I might have told him that,’ answered the Princess, ‘but he is so ill-natured that he will tear you to pieces, I fear, as soon as he comes in.

Who acts: Troll, I · What happens: not temper, tell, answer, be, tear, fear · To what, where: Troll, I, Princess, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Troll, I), 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	_	17 told	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	17 told	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 tempered	mark
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 Troll	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Troll	det
7	Troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tempered	obl
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tempered	aux:pass
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 tempered	advmod
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 tempered	advmod
11	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tempered	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 quick	punct
13	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 told	advcl
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 told	nsubj:pass
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 told	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 told	aux
17	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 answered	ccomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	iobj
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 told	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 answered	punct
22	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Princess	det
24	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 answered	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 natured	punct
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	33 natured	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 natured	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 natured	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 natured	cop
30	so	so	ADV	_	33 natured	advmod
31	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 natured	amod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 ill	punct
33	natured	natured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 answered	conj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 tear	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 tear	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 tear	aux
37	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 natured	advcl
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 tear	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 pieces	case
40	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 tear	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 fear	punct
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 fear	nsubj
43	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 answered	parataxis
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 comes	punct
45	as	as	ADV	_	46 soon	advmod
46	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	49 comes	advmod
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 comes	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 comes	nsubj
49	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 fear	conj
50	in	in	ADV	_	49 comes	advmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not temper	past · passive		the Troll			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	might · perfect · passive		I	Troll		tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	past			the Princess		tree rules
4	is	present	Troll			natured property	tree rules
5	tear	future	Troll	you		to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent you=Patient to piece=Result
6	fear	present	I				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	come in	present	Troll			soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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