The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 48
So she gave him as much as he would have, and then she once more tried to make him go away.
Who acts: Princess, Halvor · What happens: give, have, try, make, go away · To what, where: much, Halvor
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | aux |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 much | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tried | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 tried | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 tried | nsubj |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 tried | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 tried | advmod |
| 17 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 tried | xcomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 make | obj |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 make | xcomp |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 go | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Princess | much | Halvor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient much=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | would | Halvor | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | try | past | Princess | then | once property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | Halvor | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go away not said to happen | infinitive | Halvor not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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