The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 27
The first night a Troll came with three heads and three rods, and beat the lad most unmercifully; but he held out until the Troll was done with him, and then he took the flask and rubbed himself.
Who acts: Troll, lad · What happens: come, beat, hold out, do, take, rub · To what, where: lad, Troll, flask
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Troll, lad), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Troll | det |
| 5 | Troll | Troll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 heads | case |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 heads | nummod |
| 9 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rods | cc |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 rods | nummod |
| 12 | rods | rod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 heads | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 beat | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 beat | cc |
| 15 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 came | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lad | det |
| 17 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 beat | obj |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 unmercifully | advmod |
| 19 | unmercifully | unmercifully | ADV | _ | 15 beat | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 held | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 held | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 held | nsubj |
| 23 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 held | compound:prt |
| 25 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 29 done | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Troll | det |
| 27 | Troll | Troll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 done | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 done | aux:pass |
| 29 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 held | advcl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 done | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 took | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 took | cc |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 took | advmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 took | nsubj |
| 36 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 flask | det |
| 38 | flask | flask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 took | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 rubbed | cc |
| 40 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 took | conj |
| 41 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 40 rubbed | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a Troll | night | with three heads and three rods | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | beat | infinitive | a Troll not said here | the lad | unmercifully property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lad=Theme | |||
| 3 | hold out | past | lad | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | past · passive | the Troll | with lad | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | take | past | lad | the flask | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flask=Theme | |||
| 6 | rub | past | lad not said here | flask | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
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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