The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 176

There could be but one opinion as to that, everyone thought, and when Halvor heard what they said he was not long in flinging off his beggar’s rags and arraying himself as a bridegroom.

Who acts: one opinion, everyone, Halvor, girls · What happens: be, think, hear, say, not be, fling off · To what, where: rags, Halvor · 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 (one opinion, everyone, Halvor, girls), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 opinion	cc
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 opinion	nummod
6	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 be	nsubj
7	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	9 that	case
8	to	to	ADP	_	7 as	fixed
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 opinion	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 thought	nsubj
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 opinion	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 heard	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 heard	advmod
16	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 heard	nsubj
17	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thought	parataxis
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 said	obj
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	conj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 long	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 long	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 long	advmod
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 said	ccomp
25	in	in	SCONJ	_	26 flinging	mark
26	flinging	fling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 said	advcl
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 flinging	compound:prt
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 beggar	nmod:poss
29	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rags	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 beggar	case
31	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 flinging	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 arraying	cc
33	arraying	array	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 flinging	conj
34	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 arraying	obj
35	as	as	ADP	_	37 bridegroom	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 bridegroom	det
37	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 arraying	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 be	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	can	could	one opinion as that		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	everyone				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	past	Halvor				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past	girls = girl				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
5	not is	past	Halvor			long property	tree rules
6	fling off	gerund	girls = girl not said here	Halvor's beggar's rags			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rag=Theme
7	array	gerund	girls = girl not said here	Halvor		as a bridegroom	tree rules

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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