The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 22

One day the girl said to him that now it was close on the time when he must become a fish again--the troll would soon call him home, and he would have to go, but before that he must put on the shape of the fish, otherwise he could not pass through the sea alive.

Who acts: girl, company, youth, troll · What happens: say, be, become, call, have, go · To what, where: youth, fish, shape, sea · 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 (girl, company, youth, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	obl
8	that	that	ADV	_	12 close	advmod
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 close	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 close	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 close	cop
12	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 time	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 close	obl
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 become	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 become	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 become	aux
19	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 fish	det
21	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 become	xcomp
22	again	again	ADV	_	19 become	advmod
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 call	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 troll	det
25	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 call	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 call	aux
27	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 call	advmod
28	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	parataxis
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 call	obj
30	home	home	ADV	_	28 call	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 have	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 have	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 have	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 have	aux
35	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 call	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 go	mark
37	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 have	xcomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 put	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 put	cc
40	before	before	SCONJ	_	44 put	mark
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 put	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 put	nsubj
43	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 put	aux
44	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	parataxis
45	on	on	ADP	_	47 shape	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 shape	det
47	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 put	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 fish	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 fish	det
50	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 shape	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 pass	punct
52	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	56 pass	advmod
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 pass	nsubj
54	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 pass	aux
55	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 pass	advmod
56	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 put	conj
57	through	through	ADP	_	59 sea	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 sea	det
59	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 pass	obl
60	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 pass	xcomp
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the girl		youth		day		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	is	past	company				now; time	close, that property	tree rules
3	become	must	youth	a fish			again		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	call	would	the troll		youth			home, soon property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	have	would	troll						tree rules
6	go	to-infinitive	troll not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	put	must	troll			the shape of the fish			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on shape=Destination
8	not pass	could	troll			the sea		alive, otherwise property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through sea=Location

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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