The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 73

The troll came rushing out, and was so angry and furious, and abused the king with all his might for bringing such a wretched fool with him, as he was sure that he could not pay the least bit of all the damage that had been done when he could not even pay off his old debt.

Who acts: troll · What happens: come, rush out, be, abuse, bring, not pay · To what, where: king, wretched fool, least bit, damage, old debt

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 troll	det
2	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 came	xcomp
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 rushing	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 angry	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 angry	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 angry	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 angry	advmod
10	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 furious	cc
12	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 angry	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 abused	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 abused	cc
15	abused	abuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 abused	obj
18	with	with	SCONJ	_	23 bringing	mark
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 bringing	det:predet
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 bringing	nmod:poss
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 bringing	aux
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 bringing	mark
23	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 abused	advcl
24	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	27 fool	det:predet
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 fool	det
26	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fool	amod
27	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bringing	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bringing	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sure	punct
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 sure	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sure	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 sure	cop
34	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 abused	conj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 pay	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 pay	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 pay	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 pay	advmod
39	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 sure	ccomp
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 bit	det
41	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	42 bit	amod
42	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 pay	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	46 damage	case
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 damage	det:predet
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 damage	det
46	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 bit	nmod
47	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 done	obj
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 done	aux
49	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 done	aux:pass
50	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 damage	acl:relcl
51	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	56 pay	advmod
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 pay	nsubj
53	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 pay	aux
54	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 pay	advmod
55	even	even	ADV	_	56 pay	advmod
56	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 pay	advcl
57	off	off	ADP	_	56 pay	compound:prt
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 debt	nmod:poss
59	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 debt	amod
60	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 pay	obj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the troll			tree rules
2	rush out	gerund	the troll not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past			angry property	tree rules
4	be					tree rules
5	abuse	past		the king		vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme
6	bring	might		such wretched fool	with troll	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fool=Theme
7	is	past	troll		sure property	tree rules
8	not pay	could	troll	the least bit of all damage		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Asset
9	do	past · perfect · passive		all damage		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: that=Eventuality
10	not pay off	could	troll	troll's old debt		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset

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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