The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 52

Immediately after this he was called upon, and swam through the sea up the river to where the troll stood on the bank and restored him to human shape with the same words as before.

Who acts: troll · What happens: call, swim, stand, restore · To what, where: troll, sea, bank, human shape · 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), 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	Immediately	immediately	ADV	_	6 called	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 this	case
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Immediately	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 called	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 called	aux:pass
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 called	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 swam	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 swam	cc
10	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 called	conj
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swam	obl
14	up	up	ADP	_	16 river	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 river	det
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swam	obl
17	to	to	SCONJ	_	21 stood	mark
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 stood	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 troll	det
20	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stood	nsubj
21	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 swam	advcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 bank	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bank	det
24	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stood	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 restored	cc
26	restored	restore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 stood	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 restored	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 shape	case
29	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 shape	amod
30	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 restored	obl
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 words	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 words	det
33	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 words	amod
34	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 shape	nmod
35	as	as	ADP	_	36 before	case
36	before	before	ADV	_	34 words	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	past · passive		troll			immediately property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	swim	past				the sea	up the river	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through sea=Trajectory
3	stand	past	the troll			the bank		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location
4	restore	past	the troll not said here	troll	human shape with the same words			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to shape=Recipient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/27/52/