The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 93

He was the only animal that was left in the wood now, for the troll had tied up all the others, and every hunter in the whole country was eager to knock him over.

Who acts: Troll, hunter · What happens: be, leave, tie up, knock over · To what, where: only animal, wood, troll

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, hunter), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 animal	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 animal	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 animal	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animal	amod
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 left	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 left	aux:pass
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 animal	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 wood	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wood	det
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	obl
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 left	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tied	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 tied	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 troll	det
16	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tied	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 tied	aux
18	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 left	conj
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 tied	compound:prt
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 others	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 others	det
22	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tied	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 eager	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 eager	cc
25	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 hunter	det
26	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 eager	nsubj
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 country	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 country	det
29	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 country	amod
30	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hunter	nmod
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 eager	cop
32	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animal	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 knock	mark
34	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 eager	xcomp
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 knock	obj
36	over	over	ADP	_	34 knock	compound:prt
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 animal	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Troll	the only animal				tree rules
2	leave	past · passive		the only animal	the wood	now		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in wood=Location
3	tie up	past · perfect · passive		the troll				vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient other=Result
4	is	past	every hunter in the whole country				eager property	tree rules
5	knock over	to-infinitive	every hunter in the whole country not said here	Troll				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=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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