The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 97
And now he had to relate everything that had befallen him, and the old woman was so delighted with him that she would take him up to the farm at once to show him to the girls who had formerly looked down on him so.
Who acts: Halvor, old woman, woman · What happens: have, relate, befall, be, take up, show · To what, where: everything, Halvor, farm, girls
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, old woman, woman), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 had | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 had | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 relate | mark |
| 6 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | xcomp |
| 7 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 relate | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 befallen | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 befallen | aux |
| 10 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 everything | acl:relcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 befallen | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 delighted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 delighted | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woman | amod |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 delighted | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 delighted | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 delighted | advmod |
| 19 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 had | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 delighted | obl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 take | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 take | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 take | aux |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | advcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 take | obj |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 take | compound:prt |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 farm | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 farm | det |
| 30 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 take | obl |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 once | case |
| 32 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 25 take | obl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 show | mark |
| 34 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 take | advcl |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 show | iobj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 girls | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 girls | det |
| 38 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 show | obl |
| 39 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 looked | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 looked | aux |
| 41 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 42 looked | advmod |
| 42 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 girls | acl:relcl |
| 43 | down | down | ADP | _ | 42 looked | compound:prt |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 him | case |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 looked | obl |
| 46 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 show | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Halvor | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | relate | to-infinitive | Halvor not said here | everything | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | ||||
| 3 | befall | past · perfect | Halvor | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the old woman | with Halvor; delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take up | would | woman | Halvor | the farm | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to farm=Destination | |||
| 6 | show | to-infinitive | woman not said here | Halvor | to the girls | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to girl=Recipient | |||
| 7 | look down | past · perfect · passive | the girls | on Halvor; formerly property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
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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