The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 55
The troll then showed him the three bushels of money which he had earned during the past year; they stood beside the other three, and all the six now belonged to him.
Who acts: troll, bushels, six · What happens: show, earn, stand, belong · To what, where: three bushels, youth, money, other three, troll
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, bushels, six), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 troll | det |
| 2 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 showed | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 showed | advmod |
| 4 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 showed | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bushels | det |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 bushels | nummod |
| 8 | bushels | bushel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 showed | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 money | case |
| 10 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bushels | nmod |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 earned | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 earned | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 earned | aux |
| 14 | earned | earn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 money | acl:relcl |
| 15 | during | during | ADP | _ | 18 year | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 year | det |
| 17 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 year | amod |
| 18 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 earned | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 stood | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stood | nsubj |
| 21 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 showed | conj |
| 22 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 25 three | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 three | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 three | amod |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 stood | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 belonged | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 belonged | cc |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 six | det:predet |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 six | det |
| 30 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 belonged | nsubj |
| 31 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 belonged | advmod |
| 32 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stood | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 belonged | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | the troll | the three bushels of money | youth | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bushel=Topic | ||
| 2 | earn | past · perfect | troll | money | year | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 3 | stand | past | bushels = bushel | the other three | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside three=Location | ||||
| 4 | belong | past | all six | troll | now | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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