The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 97
At the same moment the troll fell dead and turned into pieces of flint.
Who acts: troll · What happens: fall, turn · To what, where: pieces
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moment | amod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 troll | det |
| 6 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fell | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 turned | cc |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fell | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 pieces | case |
| 12 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turned | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 flint | case |
| 14 | flint | flint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pieces | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the troll | moment | dead property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | turn | past | the troll not said here | pieces of flint | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into piece=Trajectory |
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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