The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 44
It will be better for you to depart at once, for a Troll lives here who has six heads.’
Who acts: It, you · What happens: be, depart, live, have · To what, where: six heads
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 (It, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 better | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 better | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 better | cop |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 depart | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 depart | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 depart | mark |
| 8 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 better | csubj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 once | case |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 depart | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lives | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 Troll | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Troll | det |
| 14 | Troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lives | obl |
| 15 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 depart | parataxis |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 lives | advmod |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 has | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 lives | conj |
| 19 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 heads | nummod |
| 20 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 has | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | It | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | depart | to-infinitive | you | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | live | present | here | for a Troll | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | present | six heads | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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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