The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 145
Then the troll sprang into the water and ladled up so many fish that in a short time the trough could hold no more.
Who acts: troll, trough · What happens: spring, ladle up, hold · To what, where: many fish, water
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, trough), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sprang | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 troll | det |
| 3 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ladled | cc |
| 9 | ladled | ladle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sprang | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 ladled | compound:prt |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 many | advmod |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fish | amod |
| 13 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sprang | obj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 hold | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hold | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 trough | det |
| 20 | trough | trough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hold | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 hold | aux |
| 22 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fish | acl:relcl |
| 23 | no | no | ADV | _ | 24 more | advmod |
| 24 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 hold | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | the troll | many fish | the water | then | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location fish=Theme | ||
| 2 | ladle up | participle | the troll not said here | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hold | could | the trough | many fish | time | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme more=Eventuality |
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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