The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 69

Then Halvor cut off the first head, and after that the others, but the last was the toughest of them all, and it was the hardest work that Halvor had ever done to get it off, but he still believed that he would have strength enough to do it.

Who acts: Halvor, last, blood, strength · What happens: cut off, be, do, get off, believe, have · To what, where: first head, hardest work, blood, strength · 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, last, blood, strength), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 cut	advmod
2	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cut	nsubj
3	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	7 head	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 head	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 head	amod
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 others	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 others	cc
10	after	after	ADP	_	13 others	case
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 after	fixed
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 others	det
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cut	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 toughest	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 toughest	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 last	det
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 toughest	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 toughest	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 toughest	det
20	toughest	tough	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 cut	advcl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 toughest	obl
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 them	nmod:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 work	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 work	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 work	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 work	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 work	det
29	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 work	amod
30	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 done	obj
32	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 done	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 done	aux
34	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 done	advmod
35	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 work	acl:relcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 get	mark
37	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 done	advcl
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 get	obj
39	off	off	ADP	_	37 get	compound:prt
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 believed	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 believed	cc
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 believed	nsubj
43	still	still	ADV	_	44 believed	advmod
44	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	conj
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 have	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 have	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 have	aux
48	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 believed	ccomp
49	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 have	obj
50	enough	enough	ADV	_	48 have	advmod
51	to	to	PART	_	52 do	mark
52	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 have	xcomp
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 do	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	past	Halvor	the first head	after the others; then		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
2	is	past	the last			of heads = head; tough property	tree rules
3	is a	past	blood	the hardest work			tree rules
4	do	past · perfect	Halvor	the hardest work	ever		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
5	get off	to-infinitive	Halvor not said here	blood			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
6	believe	past	Halvor		still		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	have	would	Halvor	strength		enough property	tree rules
8	do	to-infinitive	strength not said here	blood			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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