The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 6
When this was done the troll again said some words to him, and at these he turned into a fish, and sprang into the river.
Who acts: troll · What happens: do, say, turn, spring · To what, where: this, words, troll, these, river · 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 done | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 done | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 troll | det |
| 6 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 done | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 words | det |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 words | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 turned | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 turned | cc |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 these | case |
| 16 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 turned | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 turned | nsubj |
| 18 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 fish | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fish | det |
| 21 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 turned | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sprang | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sprang | cc |
| 24 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 river | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 river | det |
| 27 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sprang | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | some words | troll | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | turn | past | troll | these | into a fish | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at this=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | spring | past | the river | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into river=Destination |
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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