The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 66
So she gave him the Troll’s sword, and bade him take a drink from the flask to enable him to wield it.
Who acts: Princess, bade, Troll · What happens: give, take, enable, wield · To what, where: sword, Troll, drink, flask
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, bade, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Troll | det |
| 6 | Troll | Troll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sword | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Troll | case |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 take | cc |
| 11 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | nsubj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bade | obj |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 drink | det |
| 15 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 flask | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 flask | det |
| 18 | flask | flask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 enable | mark |
| 20 | enable | enable | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 take | advcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 enable | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 wield | mark |
| 23 | wield | wield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 enable | xcomp |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 wield | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Princess | the Troll's sword | Troll | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sword=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | infinitive | bade | a drink | the flask | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent drink=Theme from flask=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | enable | to-infinitive | bade not said here | Troll | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wield | to-infinitive | Troll not said here | drink | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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