The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 32

Then, without loss of time, he grasped the sword and struck the Troll dead, and in the morning when he went out of the castle the Princesses were standing there entirely out of the earth.

Who acts: flask, Princesses · What happens: grasp, strike, go out, stand · To what, where: sword, Troll, castle, earth

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 (flask, Princesses), 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	9 grasped	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	without	without	ADP	_	4 loss	case
4	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grasped	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 time	case
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loss	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 loss	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grasped	nsubj
9	grasped	grasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sword	det
11	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grasped	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 struck	cc
13	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 grasped	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Troll	det
15	Troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 struck	obj
16	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 struck	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 morning	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 morning	det
21	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	obl
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 went	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 went	nsubj
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 grasped	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	28 castle	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 castle	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 castle	det
28	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Princesses	det
30	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	Number=Plur	32 standing	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 standing	aux
32	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 went	advcl
33	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 standing	advmod
34	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	32 standing	advmod
35	out	out	ADP	_	38 earth	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 earth	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 earth	det
38	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 standing	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 grasped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grasp	past	flask	the sword		then	without loss of time	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus
2	strike	past	flask not said here	the Troll			dead property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troll=Patient
3	go out	past	flask	the castle		morning		tree rules
4	stand	past · progressive	the Princesses		the earth; there		entirely property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out earth=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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