The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 103

When he had done this the troll again said some words to him, and with that he became a raven, and flew high up into the air.

Who acts: boy · What happens: do, say, become, fly · To what, where: this, words, raven, air · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 done	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 done	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	ccomp
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 done	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 troll	det
7	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 done	obj
8	again	again	ADV	_	4 done	advmod
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 words	det
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 words	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 became	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 became	cc
16	with	with	SCONJ	_	19 became	mark
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 became	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 became	nsubj
19	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 raven	det
21	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 became	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 flew	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 flew	cc
24	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 became	conj
25	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 up	advmod
26	up	up	ADV	_	24 flew	advmod
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 air	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 air	det
29	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flew	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	boy	this	again		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		some words		to boy	tree rules
3	become	past	boy	a raven			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	fly	past	boy not said here			into the air result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=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 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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