The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 67

At that same moment the Troll came, breathing hard, and he was ever so much bigger and stouter than either of the others, and he too was forced to go sideways to get in through the door.

Who acts: Troll · What happens: come, breathe, be, force, go, get in · 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 moment	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 moment	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moment	amod
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Troll	det
6	Troll	Troll	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 breathing	punct
9	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 came	advcl
10	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 breathing	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bigger	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bigger	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bigger	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bigger	cop
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 much	advmod
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADV	_	18 bigger	advmod
18	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 came	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stouter	cc
20	stouter	stout	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 bigger	conj
21	than	than	ADP	_	22 either	case
22	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	20 stouter	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 others	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 others	det
25	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 either	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 forced	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 forced	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 forced	nsubj:pass
29	too	too	ADV	_	31 forced	advmod
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 forced	aux:pass
31	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 came	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	33 go	mark
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 forced	xcomp
34	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	33 go	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 get	mark
36	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 go	advcl
37	in	in	ADV	_	36 get	advmod
38	through	through	ADP	_	40 door	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 door	det
40	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 get	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Troll			moment		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	breathe	gerund	the Troll not said here				hard property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Troll				big property	tree rules
4	be		Troll not said here				than either	tree rules
5	force	past · passive		Troll				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
6	go	to-infinitive	Troll not said here				sideways property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	get in	to-infinitive	Troll not said here		the door			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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