The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 1

This, however, he also got used to, when he saw that they could never hit him, and in this way he flew about all that year, until the troll called him home again, said some strange words to him, and gave him his human shape again.

Who acts: he, they, troll · What happens: use, see, not hit, fly, call, say · To what, where: This, him, way, strange words, troll, human shape · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, they, 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 used	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 This	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	8 used	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 used	nsubj
6	also	also	ADV	_	8 used	advmod
7	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 used	aux:pass
8	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	8 used	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 saw	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 used	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 hit	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hit	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 hit	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 hit	advmod
18	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 saw	ccomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hit	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 flew	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 flew	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 way	case
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 way	det
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flew	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 flew	nsubj
26	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saw	parataxis
27	about	about	ADP	_	30 year	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 year	det:predet
29	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 year	det
30	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flew	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 called	punct
32	until	until	SCONJ	_	35 called	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 troll	det
34	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 called	nsubj
35	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 flew	conj
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 called	obj
37	home	home	ADV	_	35 called	advmod
38	again	again	ADV	_	35 called	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 said	punct
40	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 flew	conj
41	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	43 words	det
42	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 words	amod
43	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 said	obj
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 him	case
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 said	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 gave	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 gave	cc
48	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 said	conj
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 gave	iobj
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 shape	nmod:poss
51	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 shape	amod
52	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 gave	obj
53	again	again	ADV	_	48 gave	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · passive		This				however property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	see	past	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	not hit	could	they	him = he					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
4	fly	past	he			this way	year		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in way=Location
5	call	past	the troll		him = he		again	home property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	say speech: assert	past	he not said here	some strange words	troll				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to he=Recipient
7	give	past	he not said here	troll's human shape	troll		again		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient shape=Theme

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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