The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 98

The troll then said some words to him which he did not understand, and the hare immediately became a human being again.

Who acts: troll, hare · What happens: say, not understand, become, be · To what, where: words, person · 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, hare), 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	2 troll	det
2	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
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	_	19 became	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 became	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hare	det
17	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 became	nsubj
18	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	19 became	advmod
19	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 human	det
21	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 again	advmod
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 again	cop
23	again	again	ADV	_	19 became	advmod
24	.	.	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	person	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	become	past	the hare				immediately property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	is	gerund					again property	tree rules

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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