The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 5
And Halvor had a fancy for that, so he was not long in getting ready.
Who acts: Halvor · What happens: have, not be, get · To what, where: fancy
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 had | cc |
| 2 | Halvor | Halvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fancy | det |
| 5 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 fancy | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 long | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 long | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 long | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 long | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 long | advmod |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 15 getting | mark |
| 15 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 long | advcl |
| 16 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 getting | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Halvor | a fancy | for that | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Patient | |||
| 2 | not is | past | Halvor | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | gerund | Halvor not said here | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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