The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 69

When they came to the troll’s dwelling it was no longer in the bank, but on the top of this there stood a large castle which the youth had never seen before.

Who acts: kings, harm · What happens: come, dwell, be, stand, not see · To what, where: bank, large castle, top, youth

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 (kings, harm), 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	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 troll	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 troll	det
6	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dwelling	obl
7	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dwelling	aux
8	dwelling	dwell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 came	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bank	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 bank	cop
11	no	no	ADV	_	12 longer	advmod
12	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 bank	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 bank	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bank	det
15	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dwelling	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stood	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 stood	cc
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 top	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 top	det
20	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stood	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 this	case
22	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 top	nmod
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 stood	advmod
24	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 castle	det
26	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 castle	amod
27	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stood	obj
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 seen	obj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 youth	det
30	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seen	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 seen	aux
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 seen	advmod
33	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 castle	acl:relcl
34	before	before	ADV	_	33 seen	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	kings = king				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dwell	present · progressive	kings = king not said here			to the troll	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	harm		the bank	long property	tree rules
4	stand	past	kings = king not said here	a large castle	the top of this; there		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent castle=Theme on top=Destination
5	not see	past · perfect · passive		the youth		before property	tree rules

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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