English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 55

And when the second head said: “The smaller the more dangerous; what's that?” he said at once, “A bridge.”

Who acts: second head, man · 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, man), 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	_	6 said	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 said	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 head	det
4	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 head	amod
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 said	ccomp
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 dangerous	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 dangerous	punct
9	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 smaller	det
10	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 dangerous	csubj
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	6 said	ccomp
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	_	13 dangerous	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 once	case
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 said	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bridge	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 bridge	punct
26	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 bridge	det
27	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 bridge	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 bridge	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	the second head		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present		that	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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