The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 91

Then the troll said some words to him which he did not understand, and with that the lad turned into a hare, and ran out into the wood.

Who acts: troll · What happens: say, not understand, turn, run out · To what, where: words, boy, wood · 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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 troll	det
3	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 words	det
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 words	nmod
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 understand	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 understand	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 understand	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 understand	advmod
13	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 words	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 turned	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 turned	cc
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 lad	case
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 with	fixed
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lad	det
19	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 turned	obl
20	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 hare	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hare	det
23	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 turned	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ran	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ran	cc
26	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 ran	compound:prt
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 wood	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wood	det
30	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ran	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the troll	some words	boy	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to he=Recipient
2	not understand	past · do-support	Troll	some words				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
3	turn	past	the troll not said here				with the lad; into a hare result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into hare=Result
4	run out	past	the troll not said here				into the wood result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=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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