The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 23
Before this, while he was staying down there, she had told him that she was a daughter of the same troll whom the youth served, and he had shut her up there to keep her away from everyone.
Who acts: troll, girl, youth · What happens: stay, tell, be, serve, shut up, keep away · To what, where: this, troll, daughter, same troll, girl, everyone · 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, youth), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 staying | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 this | punct |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 staying | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 staying | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 staying | aux |
| 7 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 there | advmod |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 staying | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 told | aux |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 staying | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | iobj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 daughter | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 daughter | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 daughter | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 daughter | det |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | ccomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 troll | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 troll | det |
| 22 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 troll | amod |
| 23 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 daughter | nmod |
| 24 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 served | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 youth | det |
| 26 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 served | nsubj |
| 27 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 troll | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 shut | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 shut | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 shut | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 shut | aux |
| 32 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 staying | conj |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 shut | obj |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 shut | compound:prt |
| 35 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 shut | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 keep | mark |
| 37 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 shut | advcl |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 keep | obj |
| 39 | away | away | ADV | _ | 37 keep | advmod |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 everyone | case |
| 41 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 37 keep | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 staying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past · progressive | troll | this; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before this=Location | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | girl | troll | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | girl | a daughter | of the same troll | tree rules | |||
| 4 | serve | past | the youth | the same troll | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | shut up | past · perfect | youth | girl | there | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 6 | keep away | to-infinitive | youth not said here | girl | everyone | away property | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary from everyone=Eventuality |
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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