The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 141
When they had got out a little way the troll said to his wife, ‘Are my eyes green?’
Who acts: trough, troll, eyes · What happens: get out, say, be · To what, where: little way, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (trough, troll, eyes), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 got | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 troll | det |
| 10 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 wife | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wife | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 green | punct |
| 17 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 green | cop |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 green | nsubj |
| 20 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | conj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 green | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 green | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | past · perfect | trough | a little way | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the troll | a little way not said here | mound's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Topic to wife=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is | present | my eyes | green 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 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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