The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 41
Very soon afterwards they came to the end of the wood, and the Troll with three heads came rushing up to them.
Who acts: leaves, Troll · What happens: come, rush up · To what, where: end, leaves
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leaves, Troll), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 afterwards | advmod |
| 3 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wood | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wood | det |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 end | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 came | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Troll | det |
| 15 | Troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 heads | case |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 heads | nummod |
| 18 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Troll | nmod |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 20 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 came | xcomp |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 rushing | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rushing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | leaves = leaf | to the end of the wood | afterwards property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | the Troll with three heads | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rush up | gerund | the Troll with three heads not said here | leaves = leaf | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to they=Result |
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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