The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 80

There was nothing else to be done than to try to answer the troll’s riddles.

Who acts: nothing, troll · What happens: be, do, try, answer, riddle · To what, where: riddles

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 (nothing, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 was	nsubj
4	else	else	ADV	_	3 nothing	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	7 done	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 done	aux:pass
7	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 nothing	acl
8	than	than	ADP	_	7 done	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 try	mark
10	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 done	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 answer	mark
12	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 try	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 troll	det
14	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 riddles	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 troll	case
16	riddles	riddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 answer	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	nothing		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	to-infinitive · passive	nothing not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»
3	try	to-infinitive	nothing not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	answer speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	nothing not said here	the troll's riddles		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent riddle=Eventuality
5	riddle		the troll			nom riddle «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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