The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 156
Then the old troll-hag flew into such a rage that she burst, and the Princess with the long nose and all the little trolls must have burst too, for they have never been heard of since.
Who acts: old troll hag, larger · What happens: fly, burst, not hear · To what, where: rage, Princess, hag
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old troll hag, larger), 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 | 7 flew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hag | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hag | amod |
| 4 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hag | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 troll | punct |
| 6 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flew | nsubj |
| 7 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 rage | case |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 rage | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 rage | det |
| 11 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flew | obl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 burst | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 burst | nsubj |
| 14 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 flew | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 burst | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 burst | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Princess | det |
| 18 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 burst | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 nose | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 nose | det |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 nose | amod |
| 22 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Princess | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 trolls | cc |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 trolls | det:predet |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 trolls | det |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 trolls | amod |
| 27 | trolls | troll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 nose | conj |
| 28 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 burst | aux |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 burst | aux |
| 30 | burst | burst | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 flew | conj |
| 31 | too | too | ADV | _ | 30 burst | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 heard | punct |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 heard | case |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 heard | nsubj |
| 35 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 heard | aux |
| 36 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 38 heard | advmod |
| 37 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 heard | aux:pass |
| 38 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 burst | conj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 since | case |
| 40 | since | since | ADV | _ | 38 heard | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the old troll hag | then | into such rage result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into rage=Result | |||
| 2 | burst | past | larger = large | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | burst | must · perfect · passive | the Princess with the long nose and all little trolls | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not hear | present · perfect · passive | hag | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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