The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 141
Then they burned the old troll and her to ashes, and explored the cave, where they found plenty of gold and treasures.
Who acts: others · What happens: burn, explore, find · To what, where: old troll, cave, plenty
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 (others), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 burned | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 burned | nsubj |
| 3 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 troll | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 troll | amod |
| 6 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burned | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 her | cc |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 burned | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 ashes | case |
| 10 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 burned | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 explored | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 explored | cc |
| 13 | explored | explore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 burned | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cave | det |
| 15 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 explored | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 found | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 found | nsubj |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cave | acl:relcl |
| 20 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 gold | case |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 plenty | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 treasures | cc |
| 24 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 gold | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 burned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past | others = other | the old troll | then | to ashes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent troll=Theme | ||
| 2 | explore | past | others = other not said here | the cave | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent cave=Location | ||||
| 3 | find | past | others = other | plenty of gold and treasures | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Topic |
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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