The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 47

But she spoke to no purpose, for Halvor would not go; he was not afraid of the Troll, but he wanted some meat and drink, for he was hungry after his journey.

Who acts: Princess, Halvor · What happens: speak, not go, not be, want, be, journey · To what, where: meat · 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 (Princess, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 spoke	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 purpose	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 purpose	det
6	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 go	mark
9	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 go	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 go	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 go	advmod
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spoke	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 afraid	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 afraid	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 afraid	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 afraid	advmod
17	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spoke	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 Troll	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Troll	det
20	Troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 afraid	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wanted	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 wanted	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wanted	nsubj
24	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spoke	parataxis
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 meat	det
26	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wanted	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 drink	cc
28	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 meat	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hungry	punct
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 hungry	case
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 hungry	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 hungry	cop
33	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wanted	conj
34	after	after	ADP	_	36 journey	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 journey	nmod:poss
36	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hungry	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Princess			to no purpose	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to purpose=Co-Agent
2	not go	would	Halvor				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is	past	Halvor			of the Troll; afraid property	tree rules
4	want	past	Halvor	some meat and drink			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot meat=Theme
5	is	past	Halvor		after Halvor's journey	hungry property	tree rules
6	journey		Halvor				nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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