The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 26
And now he thought it was high time for the Troll to make his appearance, and at that very moment he came, panting for breath.
Who acts: Halvor, sword · What happens: think, be, make, come, pant · To what, where: high time, appearance · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor, sword), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 thought | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 thought | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 time | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 time | cop |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 Troll | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Troll | det |
| 11 | Troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 make | mark |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 time | acl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 15 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 came | cc |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 moment | case |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 moment | det |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 moment | advmod |
| 21 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 panting | punct |
| 25 | panting | pant | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 came | advcl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 breath | case |
| 27 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 panting | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Halvor | now | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | sword | high time | for the Troll | tree rules | |||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | Halvor not said here | Halvor's appearance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset appearance=Product | ||||
| 4 | come | past | Halvor | moment | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pant | gerund | Halvor not said here | for breath | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for breath=Recipient |
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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