The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 87

These the troll had tied up, and there were both wolves and bears, deer and hares, which the troll had gathered in the stalls and folds in his stable down beneath the ground, and that stable was a mile long.

Who acts: wolves, stable · What happens: tie up, be, gather · To what, where: troll, wolves, stalls, mile

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 (wolves, stable), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 troll	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 troll	det
3	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tied	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tied	aux
5	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 tied	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 were	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 were	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 were	expl
10	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tied	conj
11	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	12 wolves	det
12	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 were	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bears	cc
14	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wolves	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 deer	punct
16	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wolves	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hares	cc
18	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wolves	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gathered	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 gathered	nsubj:pass
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 troll	det
22	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gathered	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 gathered	aux
24	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 wolves	acl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 stalls	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 stalls	det
27	stalls	stall	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 gathered	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 folds	cc
29	folds	fold	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 stalls	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 stable	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 stable	nmod:poss
32	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gathered	obl
33	down	down	ADV	_	32 stable	advmod
34	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	36 ground	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ground	det
36	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stable	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 mile	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 mile	cc
39	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 stable	det
40	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 mile	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 mile	cop
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 mile	det
43	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tied	obl
44	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 mile	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tie up	past · perfect · passive		this troll			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	be	past	both wolves and bears and deer and hares		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	gather	past · perfect · passive		both wolves and bears and deer and hares	the stalls and folds	in Troll's stable beneath the ground	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is a	past	that stable	a mile			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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