The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 90
He thereupon caught her round the waist and held her fast, and the troll had to admit that his first riddle was solved.
Who acts: troll · What happens: catch, hold, have, admit, solve, riddle · To what, where: daughter, first riddle
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 2 | thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 caught | advmod |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | obj |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 waist | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 waist | det |
| 7 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 held | cc |
| 9 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 held | obj |
| 11 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 held | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 troll | det |
| 15 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 admit | mark |
| 18 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 had | xcomp |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 solved | mark |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 riddle | nmod:poss |
| 21 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 riddle | amod |
| 22 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 solved | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 solved | aux:pass |
| 24 | solved | solve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 admit | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | troll | daughter | round the waist; thereupon property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | hold | past | troll not said here | daughter | fast property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | past | the troll | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | admit speech: other | to-infinitive | the troll not said here | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | solve | past · passive | troll's first riddle | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 6 | riddle | 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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