The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 76
This the troll had not reckoned on, but he could make no objection against it.
Who acts: troll · What happens: not reckon on, make · To what, where: troll, objection
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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 troll | det |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 troll | det |
| 3 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reckoned | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reckoned | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 reckoned | advmod |
| 6 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 reckoned | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 make | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 make | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 make | aux |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 reckoned | conj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 objection | det |
| 14 | objection | objection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 make | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reckoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reckon on | past · perfect · passive | this troll | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | make | could | troll | no objection | against money | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent objection=Product |
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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