The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 84
The latter was a great troll, and had marvellous power over both men and beasts.
Who acts: latter · What happens: be, have · To what, where: great troll, marvellous power
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (latter), 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 latter | det |
| 2 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 troll | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 troll | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 troll | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 troll | amod |
| 6 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 had | cc |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 troll | conj |
| 10 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 power | amod |
| 11 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 13 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 men | det |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 had | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 beasts | cc |
| 16 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 men | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 troll | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the latter | a great troll | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the latter not said here | marvellous power | over both men and beasts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
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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