The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 20

At first he nearly frightened the life out of her, but he talked to her so kindly and explained how he had come down there that she soon recovered from her alarm, and was very pleased to have some company to relieve the terrible solitude that she lived in.

Who acts: troll, girl, company · What happens: frighten, talk, explain, come down, recover, be · To what, where: life, girl, alarm, company, terrible solitude · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troll, girl, company), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 frightened	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 frightened	nsubj
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 frightened	advmod
5	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 life	det
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frightened	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	10 her	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 life	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 talked	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 talked	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 talked	nsubj
14	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 talked	obl
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 kindly	advmod
18	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	14 talked	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 explained	cc
20	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 talked	conj
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 come	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 come	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 explained	ccomp
25	down	down	ADV	_	26 there	advmod
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 come	advmod
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 recovered	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 recovered	nsubj
29	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 recovered	advmod
30	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 come	advcl
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 alarm	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 alarm	nmod:poss
33	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 recovered	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 pleased	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 pleased	cc
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 pleased	cop
37	very	very	ADV	_	38 pleased	advmod
38	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 frightened	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 have	mark
40	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 pleased	xcomp
41	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	42 company	det
42	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 have	obj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 relieve	mark
44	relieve	relieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 have	xcomp
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 solitude	det
46	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 solitude	amod
47	solitude	solitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 relieve	obj
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 lived	mark
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 lived	nsubj
50	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 relieve	advcl
51	in	in	ADV	_	50 lived	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	frighten	past	troll	the life			out girl; nearly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus life=Experiencer
2	talk	past	troll		girl		kindly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
3	explain speech: assert	past	troll not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come down	past · perfect	troll			there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	recover	past	girl			girl's alarm	soon property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from alarm=Source
6	is	past	troll not said here				pleased property	tree rules
7	have	to-infinitive	troll not said here	some company				tree rules
8	relieve	to-infinitive	some company not said here	the terrible solitude				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus solitude=Experiencer
9	live in	past	girl					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	alarm		girl					nom alarm «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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