The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 53
When the Troll got his first head in he cried: ‘Hutetu!
Who acts: Troll · What happens: get, cry · To what, where: first head
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 (Troll), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Troll | det |
| 3 | Troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 head | amod |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 cried | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | advcl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hutetu | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hutetu | punct |
| 13 | Hutetu | Hutetu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 got | parataxis |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hutetu | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the Troll | Troll's first head | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Troll | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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