The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 86
The first thing that the troll set him to was to feed all the wild animals from the forest.
Who acts: troll · What happens: set, be · To what, where: first thing
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 set | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 troll | det |
| 6 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | nsubj |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thing | acl:relcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 set | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 feed | mark |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 feed | cop |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 feed | mark |
| 12 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 set | advcl |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 animals | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 animals | det |
| 15 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 animals | amod |
| 16 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 feed | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 forest | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 forest | det |
| 19 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 animals | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | the troll | the first thing | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent that=Theme he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the troll not said here | feed 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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