The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 26

At least, he could transform himself into a needle, but try as he might he never was able to imitate the hole, so every woman would have found him out at once, and this he knew.

Who acts: thing, this · What happens: transform, try, not be, imitate, find out, know · To what, where: thing, least, hole, woman

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, this), 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	_	2 least	case
2	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 transform	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 least	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 transform	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 transform	aux
6	transform	transform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 transform	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 needle	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 needle	det
10	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 transform	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 try	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 try	cc
13	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 transform	parataxis
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 able	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 able	nsubj
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 able	aux
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 able	nsubj
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 able	advmod
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 able	cop
20	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 try	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 imitate	mark
22	imitate	imitate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 able	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hole	det
24	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 imitate	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 found	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	31 found	advmod
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 woman	det
28	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 found	nsubj:pass
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 found	aux
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 found	aux
31	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 try	parataxis
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 found	obj
33	out	out	ADP	_	31 found	compound:prt
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 once	case
35	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	31 found	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 knew	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 knew	cc
38	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 knew	nsubj
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 knew	nsubj
40	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 found	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 transform	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	transform	could	thing	thing	least	into a needle result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into needle=Result
2	try	present					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	not is	might	thing			able property	tree rules
4	imitate	to-infinitive	thing not said here	the hole			vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme
5	find out	would · perfect · passive		every woman			tree rules
6	know	past	this				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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