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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 you | punct |
| 3 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 you | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 you | cop |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 you | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 says | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 you | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 you | punct |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 says | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 home | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 home | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 home | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lord | det |
| 18 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 home | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 castle | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 castle | det |
| 21 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lord | nmod |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 home | cop |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 home | advmod |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 home | case |
| 25 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 woman | appos |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 present | case |
| 27 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 home | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 giant | punct |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 34 giant | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 giant | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 giant | cop |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 giant | det |
| 33 | monstrous | monstrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 giant | amod |
| 34 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 says | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 eye | punct |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 eye | case |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 eye | cc |
| 38 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 eye | nummod |
| 39 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 giant | appos |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 forehead | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 42 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 eye | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 lives | punct |
| 44 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 lives | nsubj |
| 45 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 eye | conj |
| 46 | on | on | ADP | _ | 48 flesh | case |
| 47 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 flesh | amod |
| 48 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 lives | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | castle | for you; well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the young woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | the lord of this castle | home | at present | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | person | a monstrous giant | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | live in a quote | present | one eye on person's forehead | human flesh | vn 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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