The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 81
The fool then stationed himself just by the king’s side while the troll came forward with his questions.
Who acts: fool, troll · What happens: station, come forward, question · To what, where: fool
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 (fool, 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 fool | det |
| 2 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stationed | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stationed | advmod |
| 4 | stationed | station | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 stationed | obj |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 side | advmod |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 side | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 king | case |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stationed | obl |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 came | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 troll | det |
| 14 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stationed | advcl |
| 16 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 questions | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 questions | nmod:poss |
| 19 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 came | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stationed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | station | past | the fool | fool | then | by the king's side | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme by side=Destination | ||
| 2 | come forward | past | the troll | with troll's questions; forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | question | troll | nom question «communication transitive»: 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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