The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 21
So the Troll struck at him with a great thick iron bar which he had in his fist, till the sods flew five yards up into the air.
Who acts: Troll, Minnikin, sods · What happens: strike, have, fly · To what, where: great thick iron bar, fist, air
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Troll, Minnikin, sods), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 struck | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Troll | det |
| 3 | Troll | Troll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | nsubj |
| 4 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 struck | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 bar | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bar | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bar | amod |
| 10 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bar | amod |
| 11 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bar | compound |
| 12 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | obl |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 had | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bar | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 fist | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 fist | nmod:poss |
| 18 | fist | fist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 flew | punct |
| 20 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 flew | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sods | det |
| 22 | sods | sod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 flew | nsubj |
| 23 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 struck | conj |
| 24 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 yards | nummod |
| 25 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 up | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | up | up | ADV | _ | 23 flew | advmod |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 air | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 air | det |
| 29 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flew | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | the Troll | at Minnikin; with a great thick iron bar | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at he=Patient with bar=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Minnikin | a great thick iron bar | Minnikin's fist | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | |||
| 3 | fly | past | the sods | into the air result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=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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