The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 57

Halvor thought that might be managed, and wanted to set off immediately; but first he had to help the Princess to remove the Troll’s body, so it was not until morning that he set forth on his way.

Who acts: Halvor, Princess, body · What happens: think, manage, want, set off, have, help · To what, where: that, Princess, body, way · 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, body), 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	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 managed	nsubj:pass
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 managed	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 managed	aux:pass
6	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thought	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wanted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wanted	cc
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 set	mark
11	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wanted	xcomp
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 set	compound:prt
13	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	11 set	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 had	cc
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 had	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 help	mark
20	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 had	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Princess	det
22	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 help	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 remove	mark
24	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 help	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Troll	det
26	Troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 body	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 Troll	case
28	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 remove	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 morning	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	35 morning	advmod
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 morning	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 morning	cop
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 morning	advmod
34	until	until	ADP	_	35 morning	case
35	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obl
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 set	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 set	nsubj
38	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 morning	advcl
39	forth	forth	ADV	_	38 set	advmod
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 way	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 way	nmod:poss
42	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 set	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Halvor					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	manage	might · passive		that				vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	want	past						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	set off not said to happen	to-infinitive					immediately property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	past	Halvor				first property	tree rules
6	help	to-infinitive	Halvor not said here	the Princess				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent princess=Beneficiary clause=Theme
7	remove	to-infinitive	the Princess not said here	the Troll's body				vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme
8	not is	past	body			until morning		tree rules
9	set	past	Halvor		Halvor's way		forth property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on way=Destination

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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