The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 168

‘Yes,’ said Halvor, ‘he has only gone to break down a bit of spruce fir.

Who acts: Halvor · What happens: say, go, break down · To what, where: bit · 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), 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	_	2 Yes	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gone	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 gone	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gone	nsubj
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	aux
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 gone	advmod
12	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 break	mark
14	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 gone	advcl
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 break	compound:prt
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bit	det
17	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 break	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 fir	case
19	spruce	spruce	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fir	compound
20	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bit	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Halvor		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	go	present · perfect	Halvor		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	break down	to-infinitive	Halvor not said here	a bit of spruce fir	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=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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