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The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 112

‘“It is well for you,” says the young woman, “that the lord of this castle is not at home at present; for he is a monstrous giant, with but one eye on his forehead, who lives on human flesh.

Who acts: castle, young woman, lord, person, one eye · What happens: be, say, not be, live · To what, where: home, monstrous giant, human flesh · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle, young woman, lord, person), 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

punctpunctnsubjcopadvmodcaseccomppunctpunctdetamodnsubjpunctpunctmarkdetnsubjcasedetnmodcopadvmodcaseapposcasenmodpunctmarknsubjcopdetamodparataxispunctcaseccnummodapposcasenmod:possnmodpunctnsubjconjcaseamodoblpunctroot‘PUNCT“PUNCTItPRONisAUXwellADVforADPyouPRON,PUNCT”PUNCTsaysVERBtheDETyoungADJwomanNOUN,PUNCT“PUNCTthatSCONJtheDETlordNOUNofADPthisDETcastleNOUNisAUXnotPARTatADPhomeNOUNatADPpresentNOUN;PUNCTforSCONJhePRONisAUXaDETmonstrousADJgiantNOUN,PUNCTwithADPbutCCONJoneNUMeyeNOUNonADPhisPRONforeheadNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONlivesVERBonADPhumanADJfleshNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_10 sayspunct
2“"PUNCT_7 youpunct
3ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 younsubj
4isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 youcop
5wellwellADVDegree=Pos7 youadvmod
6forforADP_7 youcase
7youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs10 saysccomp
8,,PUNCT_7 youpunct
9”"PUNCT_7 youpunct
10sayssayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 womandet
12youngyoungADJDegree=Pos13 womanamod
13womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing10 saysnsubj
14,,PUNCT_25 homepunct
15“"PUNCT_25 homepunct
16thatthatSCONJ_25 homemark
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 lorddet
18lordlordNOUNNumber=Sing25 homensubj
19ofofADP_21 castlecase
20thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem21 castledet
21castlecastleNOUNNumber=Sing18 lordnmod
22isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin25 homecop
23notnotPARTPolarity=Neg25 homeadvmod
24atatADP_25 homecase
25homehomeNOUNNumber=Sing13 womanappos
26atatADP_27 presentcase
27presentpresentNOUNNumber=Sing25 homenmod
28;;PUNCT_34 giantpunct
29forforSCONJ_34 giantmark
30hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 giantnsubj
31isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin34 giantcop
32aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art34 giantdet
33monstrousmonstrousADJDegree=Pos34 giantamod
34giantgiantNOUNNumber=Sing10 saysparataxis
35,,PUNCT_39 eyepunct
36withwithADP_39 eyecase
37butbutCCONJ_39 eyecc
38oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card39 eyenummod
39eyeeyeNOUNNumber=Sing34 giantappos
40ononADP_42 foreheadcase
41hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs42 foreheadnmod:poss
42foreheadforeheadNOUNNumber=Sing39 eyenmod
43,,PUNCT_45 livespunct
44whowhoPRONPronType=Rel45 livesnsubj
45livesliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin39 eyeconj
46ononADP_48 fleshcase
47humanhumanADJDegree=Pos48 fleshamod
48fleshfleshNOUNNumber=Sing45 livesobl
49..PUNCT_10 sayspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is in a quotepresentcastlefor you; well propertytree rules
2say speech: assertpresentthe young womanvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3not is in a quotepresentthe lord of this castlehomeat presenttree rules
4is a in a quotepresentpersona monstrous gianttree rules
5live in a quotepresentone eye on person's foreheadhuman fleshvn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on flesh=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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