The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 102
The troll then gave the old man a sackful of money, and laden with this he betook himself homewards.
Who acts: troll, man · What happens: give, lade, betake · To what, where: sackful, old man, man
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troll, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 troll | det |
| 2 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gave | advmod |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sackful | det |
| 9 | sackful | sackful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 money | case |
| 11 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sackful | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 laden | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 laden | cc |
| 14 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gave | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 this | case |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 laden | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 betook | nsubj |
| 18 | betook | betake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 laden | ccomp |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 betook | obj |
| 20 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 himself | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the troll | a sackful of money | the old man | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient sackful=Theme | ||
| 2 | lade | participle | the troll not said here | with this | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | betake | past | man | man | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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