The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 47

So the Troll struck at him with his iron club—which was still bigger than that which the first Troll had had—so that the earth flew ten yards up in the air.

Who acts: Troll, earth · What happens: strike, be, have, —, fly · To what, where: first Troll, 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, earth), 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	_	10 club	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 club	nmod:poss
9	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 club	compound
10	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 struck	obl
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 bigger	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 bigger	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 bigger	cop
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 bigger	advmod
15	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 struck	conj
16	than	than	ADP	_	17 that	case
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 bigger	obl
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 —	obj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Troll	det
20	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 Troll	amod
21	Troll	Troll	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 —	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 —	aux
23	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 —	parataxis
24	—	—	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 bigger	advcl
25	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	29 flew	mark
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 so	fixed
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 earth	det
28	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flew	nsubj
29	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 —	advcl
30	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 yards	nummod
31	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 up	obl:unmarked
32	up	up	ADV	_	29 flew	advmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 air	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 air	det
35	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flew	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	the Troll				at Minnikin; with Minnikin's iron club	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at he=Patient with club=Instrument
2	is	past				still	than that; big property	tree rules
3	have	participle						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	—	past · perfect · passive		the first Troll				tree rules
5	fly	past	the earth		the air			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=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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