The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 48
When the youth had got all these directions as to what he had to do when he got ashore again the next thing was to remember the words which the troll said when he changed him from a human being to an animal; but these he had forgotten, and the girl did not know them either.
Who acts: youth, next thing, troll, girl · What happens: get, have, do, be, say, change · To what, where: directions, words, youth, these · 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 (youth, next thing, troll, girl), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 directions | det:predet |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 directions | det |
| 8 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 11 what | case |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 as | fixed |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 got | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 had | xcomp |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 got | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 got | nsubj |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | advcl |
| 19 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 20 again | advmod |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 got | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 thing | det |
| 22 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 thing | amod |
| 23 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 remember | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 remember | cop |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 remember | mark |
| 26 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 got | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 words | det |
| 28 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 remember | obj |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 said | obj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 troll | det |
| 31 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 said | nsubj |
| 32 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 words | acl:relcl |
| 33 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 changed | advmod |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 changed | nsubj |
| 35 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 said | ccomp |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 changed | obj |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 animal | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 animal | det |
| 39 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 animal | amod |
| 40 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 43 animal | cop |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 animal | case |
| 42 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 animal | det |
| 43 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 changed | obl |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 forgotten | punct |
| 45 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 49 forgotten | cc |
| 46 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 49 forgotten | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 forgotten | nsubj |
| 48 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 forgotten | aux |
| 49 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 got | conj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 know | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 know | cc |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 girl | det |
| 53 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 know | nsubj |
| 54 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 56 know | aux |
| 55 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 56 know | advmod |
| 56 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 forgotten | conj |
| 57 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 know | obj |
| 58 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 56 know | advmod |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | the youth | all directions | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer direction=Stimulus as what=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | have | past | youth | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | youth not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get | past | youth | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the next thing | remember property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | the troll | the words | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | change | past | troll | youth | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 8 | is | gerund | from a human animal | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | forget | past · perfect · passive | these | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | not know | past · do-support | the girl | words = word | either property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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