The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 46
‘He will swallow you up alive,’ said the Princess.
Who acts: Halvor, Princess · What happens: swallow up, say · To what, where: you · 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 (Halvor, Princess), 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 | _ | 4 swallow | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swallow | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 swallow | aux |
| 4 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 swallow | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 swallow | compound:prt |
| 7 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 swallow | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 swallow | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 swallow | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Princess | det |
| 12 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow up | future | Halvor | you | alive property | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | |||
| 2 | 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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