The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 34

One of them had been taken away by a Troll to his castle, which was six miles off, and the other had been carried off to a castle which was nine miles farther off still.

Who acts: Troll, castle · What happens: take away, be, carry off · To what, where: One, other, castle, nine miles

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 (Troll, castle), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 taken	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 taken	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 taken	aux:pass
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 taken	advmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 Troll	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Troll	det
10	Troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 castle	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 castle	nmod:poss
13	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Troll	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 off	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 off	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 off	cop
17	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 miles	nummod
18	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 off	obl:unmarked
19	off	off	ADV	_	13 castle	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 carried	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 carried	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 other	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 carried	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 carried	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 carried	aux:pass
26	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 taken	conj
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 carried	compound:prt
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 castle	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 castle	det
30	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carried	obl
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 miles	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 miles	cop
33	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 miles	nummod
34	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 castle	conj
35	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 miles	advmod
36	off	off	ADV	_	35 farther	advmod
37	still	still	ADV	_	35 farther	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take away	past · perfect · passive	a Troll to Halvor's castle	One of sisters		away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	is	past	Halvor's castle			six miles obl:unmarked; off property	tree rules
3	carry off	past · perfect · passive		the other	a castle and nine miles		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to castle=Destination
4	is a	past	a castle and nine miles	nine miles		far property	tree rules

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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