The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 64
‘Yes, and if he had nine added to the nine, and then nine more still, I would not go away,’ said Halvor, and went and stood by the stove.
Who acts: Troll, I, Halvor · What happens: have, add, not go away, say, go, stand · To what, where: nine · 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 (Troll, I, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 had | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 had | cc |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 had | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 said | ccomp |
| 8 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 had | obj |
| 9 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 nine | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 nine | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nine | det |
| 12 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 added | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 more | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 more | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 more | advmod |
| 16 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 more | nummod |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 had | obj |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 more | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 go | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 go | advmod |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | parataxis |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 go | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | Halvor | Halvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 said | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 went | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 went | cc |
| 31 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 said | parataxis |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 stood | cc |
| 33 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 went | conj |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 stove | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 stove | det |
| 36 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 stood | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | Troll | nine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | participle | to the nine | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to nine=Co-Patient | |||||
| 3 | not go away | would | I | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Halvor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go | past | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | stand | past | by the stove | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by stove=Location |
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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