The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 132

The old troll now went out with the gold chess-board, and down to the river, and was about to take a drink, when Ring and Snati came upon him, took the chess-board from him, and threw him into the river.

Who acts: old troll, Ring · What happens: go out, be, take, come, throw · To what, where: drink, chess board, Ring, river

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old troll, Ring), 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	3 troll	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 troll	amod
3	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 went	advmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	12 board	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 board	det
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 board	compound
10	chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 board	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 chess	punct
12	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 down	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 down	cc
15	down	down	ADV	_	5 went	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 river	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 river	det
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 down	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 about	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 about	cc
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 about	cop
22	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 went	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 take	mark
24	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 about	xcomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 drink	det
26	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 came	punct
28	when	when	SCONJ	_	32 came	mark
29	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 came	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Snati	cc
31	Snati	Snati	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Ring	conj
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 came	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 took	punct
36	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 came	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 board	det
38	chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 board	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 chess	punct
40	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 took	obj
41	from	from	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 took	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 threw	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 threw	cc
45	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 took	conj
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 threw	obj
47	into	into	ADP	_	49 river	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 river	det
49	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 threw	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	the old troll		now	with the gold chess board; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with board=Co-Agent
2	is	past				about property	tree rules
3	take	to-infinitive		a drink			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme
4	come	past	Ring and Snati			upon Snati	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
5	take	past	Ring and Snati not said here	the chess board		from Ring	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent board=Theme from he=Initial_Location
6	throw	past	Ring and Snati not said here	Ring		into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into river=Result

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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