The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 70
The troll could, in fact, make it visible or invisible, just as he pleased, and, knowing as much as he did of the troll’s magic arts, the youth was not at all surprised at this.
Who acts: troll, youth · What happens: make, know, do, not be · To what, where: fact, much, all
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, youth), 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 | 8 make | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | aux |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fact | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 fact | case |
| 6 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fact | punct |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 make | xcomp |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 invisible | cc |
| 12 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 visible | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pleased | punct |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 pleased | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 pleased | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pleased | nsubj |
| 17 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 make | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knowing | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 knowing | cc |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knowing | punct |
| 21 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 pleased | advcl |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 much | advmod |
| 23 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 knowing | obj |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 did | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 did | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 much | advcl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 arts | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 troll | det |
| 29 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 arts | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 troll | case |
| 31 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 arts | compound |
| 32 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 did | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 surprised | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 youth | det |
| 35 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 surprised | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 surprised | cop |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 surprised | advmod |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 all | case |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 surprised | obl |
| 40 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 make | parataxis |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 this | case |
| 42 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 surprised | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | could | the troll | fact | visible property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 2 | know | gerund | the troll not said here | much | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | do | past | troll | of the troll's magic arts | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not is | past | the youth | all | at this; surprised 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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