The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 153
Halvor could take no rest, and wanted to set off immediately; but the old woman said that there was no need to hasten.
Who acts: Halvor, old woman, need · What happens: take, want, set off, say, be, hasten · To what, where: rest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor, old woman, need), 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 | Halvor | Halvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 rest | det |
| 5 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wanted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wanted | cc |
| 8 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 set | mark |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wanted | xcomp |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 set | compound:prt |
| 12 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 10 set | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 woman | amod |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 was | mark |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 need | det |
| 23 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 was | nsubj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 hasten | mark |
| 25 | hasten | hasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 need | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | could | Halvor | no rest | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme | ||||
| 2 | want | past | Halvor not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | set off not said to happen | to-infinitive | Halvor not said here | immediately property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | be | past | no need | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | hasten | to-infinitive | no need not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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