The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 30
‘Yes, you shall learn that there is!’ said Halvor, and cut off all his heads.
Who acts: you, Halvor · What happens: learn, be, say, cut off · To what, where: heads · 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, 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 | _ | 6 learn | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 learn | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 learn | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 learn | aux |
| 6 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 is | mark |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 is | expl |
| 9 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 learn | advcl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 learn | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 learn | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Halvor | Halvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cut | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cut | cc |
| 16 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | ccomp |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 cut | compound:prt |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 heads | det:predet |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heads | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cut | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | shall | you | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | be | present | you not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Halvor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | cut off | participle | Halvor's heads | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
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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