The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 52
Soon afterwards the Troll came, and he was so large and stout that he was forced to go sideways to get through the door.
Who acts: Troll · What happens: come, be, stout, force, go, get · To what, where: Troll, door
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), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 afterwards | advmod |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Troll | det |
| 4 | Troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 large | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 large | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 large | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 large | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 large | advmod |
| 11 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 came | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stout | cc |
| 13 | stout | stout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 forced | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 forced | aux:pass |
| 17 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 stout | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 forced | xcomp |
| 20 | sideways | sideways | ADV | _ | 22 get | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 go | advcl |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 door | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 door | det |
| 25 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Troll | afterwards property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Troll | large property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stout | past | the Troll not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | force | past · passive | Troll | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | Troll not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | get | to-infinitive | Troll not said here | the door | sideways property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through door=Destination |
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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