The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 22

‘I should have been just as well pleased if he had had four heads more, for I should have enjoyed seeing the fellow,’ said the youth; ‘and I won’t go away, for I have done no harm, but you must give me something to eat, for I am frightfully hungry.’

Who acts: I, Troll, you · What happens: be, have, enjoy, see, say, not go away · To what, where: more, fellow, youth, harm, something, me · 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 (I, Troll, you), 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	_	9 pleased	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 pleased	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 pleased	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 pleased	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 pleased	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 pleased	advmod
7	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	9 pleased	cc
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 as	fixed
9	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 said	ccomp
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 had	aux
13	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 pleased	advcl
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 heads	nummod
15	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 more	nsubj
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 had	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 enjoyed	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 enjoyed	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 enjoyed	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 enjoyed	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 enjoyed	aux
22	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 had	conj
23	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 enjoyed	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fellow	det
25	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seeing	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pleased	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 pleased	punct
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 youth	det
30	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 said	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 ‘	punct
32	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 said	ccomp
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 go	cc
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 go	nsubj
35	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 go	aux
36	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 go	advmod
37	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 ‘	conj
38	away	away	ADV	_	37 go	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 done	punct
40	for	for	ADP	_	43 done	case
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 done	nsubj
42	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 done	aux
43	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 go	advcl
44	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	45 harm	det
45	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 done	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 give	punct
47	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 give	cc
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 give	nsubj
49	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 give	aux
50	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 said	ccomp
51	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 give	iobj
52	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	50 give	obj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 eat	mark
54	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 something	acl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 hungry	punct
56	for	for	SCONJ	_	60 hungry	mark
57	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	60 hungry	nsubj
58	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	60 hungry	cop
59	frightfully	frightfully	ADV	_	60 hungry	advmod
60	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 eat	advcl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	50 give	punct
62	’	'	PUNCT	_	50 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	should · perfect	I			pleased property	tree rules
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Troll	more			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
3	enjoy	should · perfect	I				vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	see	gerund	I not said here	the fellow			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fellow=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	past		the youth			tree rules
6	not go away	future	I			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	do	present · perfect	I	no harm			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality
8	give	must	you	something	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Theme
9	eat	to-infinitive	you not said here	something not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	is	present	I			frightfully, hungry property	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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