The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 17

He swam and he pondered and he thought over this until he remembered the sound of what the troll said, and then he tried to say it himself.

Who acts: troll · What happens: swim, ponder, think, remember, say, try · To what, where: this, sound · 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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swam	nsubj
2	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pondered	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pondered	nsubj
5	pondered	ponder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 swam	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thought	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thought	nsubj
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 swam	conj
9	over	over	ADP	_	10 this	case
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 thought	obl
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 remembered	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 remembered	nsubj
13	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thought	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sound	det
15	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 remembered	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 what	case
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 sound	nmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 troll	det
19	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 what	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tried	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tried	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 tried	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tried	nsubj
25	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 swam	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 say	mark
27	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 tried	xcomp
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 say	obj
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 say	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	swim	past	troll				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ponder	past	troll				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	past	troll		this		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	remember	past	troll	the sound			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sound=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	the troll				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	try	past	troll			then	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	troll not said here	sound			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme himself=Manner

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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