English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 28
Then the second head said: “The smaller, the more dangerous, what's that?”
Who acts: second head · What happens: say, be · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second head), 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 | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 head | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 head | amod |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 smaller | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 smaller | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 smaller | det |
| 9 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dangerous | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dangerous | det |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 dangerous | advmod |
| 13 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 smaller | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 that | punct |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 that | obj |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 that | cop |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 dangerous | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 dangerous | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 smaller | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the second head | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | that | tree rules |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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