The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 27

‘Yes, it must be that,’ said the Troll.

Who acts: bird, that · What happens: be, say · To what, where: that, Troll · 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 (bird, that), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 that	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 that	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 that	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 that	cop
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 that	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 that	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Troll	det
12	Troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	must	bird	that					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	that	the Troll					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent troll=Topic

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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