The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 24
‘Well, then, you must take a drink out of that bottle which is hanging by its side, for that’s what the Troll does whenever he goes out and wants to use the sword,’ said the Princess.
Who acts: you, bottle, that, Troll, Princess · What happens: take, hang, be, do, go out, want · To what, where: drink, bottle, sword · 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 (you, bottle, that, Troll), 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 | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 take | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 take | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 take | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | aux |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 said | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 drink | det |
| 10 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 bottle | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bottle | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 bottle | det |
| 14 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obl |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 hanging | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hanging | aux |
| 17 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 bottle | acl:relcl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 side | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 side | nmod:poss |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hanging | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 what | punct |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 what | case |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 what | nsubj |
| 24 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 what | cop |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 take | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Troll | det |
| 27 | Troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 does | nsubj |
| 28 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 what | acl:relcl |
| 29 | whenever | whenever | SCONJ | _ | 31 goes | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 goes | nsubj |
| 31 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 does | advcl |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 goes | compound:prt |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 wants | cc |
| 34 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 does | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 use | mark |
| 36 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 wants | xcomp |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 sword | det |
| 38 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 use | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 40 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 41 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Princess | det |
| 43 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 said | nsubj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | must | you | a drink | that bottle | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent drink=Theme out bottle=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | hang | present · progressive | that bottle | by bottle's side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | present | the Troll | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go out | present | Troll | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | want | present | the Troll not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | use not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Troll not said here | the sword | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient | ||||
| 8 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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