The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 62

She too said what the others had said, that no Christian folk had ever been there since she had come, and entreated him to go away again, or else the Troll would swallow him up alive.

Who acts: Princess, others, Christian folk, Troll · What happens: say, be, come, entreat, go away, swallow up · To what, where: Halvor · 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, others, Christian folk, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
2	too	too	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 said	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 others	det
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	aux
8	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 come	mark
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 folk	det
12	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 folk	amod
13	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 there	advmod
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 there	cop
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 come	advmod
18	since	since	SCONJ	_	21 come	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 come	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
21	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 entreated	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 entreated	cc
24	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 entreated	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 go	mark
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 entreated	xcomp
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 go	advmod
29	again	again	ADV	_	27 go	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 swallow	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 swallow	cc
32	else	else	ADV	_	36 swallow	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Troll	det
34	Troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 swallow	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 swallow	aux
36	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 swallow	obj
38	up	up	ADP	_	36 swallow	compound:prt
39	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 swallow	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past · perfect	the others				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	is	participle			ever	there property	tree rules
4	come	past · perfect	no Christian folk				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	entreat	past	Princess not said here	Halvor			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	go away	to-infinitive	Princess not said here		again	away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	swallow up	would	the Troll	Halvor		alive, else property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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