The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 28
‘Hutetu!’ said the Troll as he put his head in at the door.
Who acts: Hutetu · What happens: say, put · To what, where: Troll, head, door · 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 (Hutetu), 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 | _ | 2 Hutetu | punct |
| 2 | Hutetu | Hutetu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hutetu | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hutetu | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Troll | det |
| 7 | Troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 put | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | nsubj |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 door | case |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 door | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hutetu | the Troll | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent troll=Topic | ||||
| 2 | put | past | Hutetu | Hutetu's head | the door | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in door=Destination |
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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