The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 88

The troll made a whole crowd of women go past them, one after the other, but all these were nothing but shadows and deceptions.

Who acts: troll, women · What happens: make, go, be · To what, where: whole crowd, nothing

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, women), 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	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crowd	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crowd	amod
6	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 go	mark
8	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 go	nsubj
9	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 crowd	acl
10	past	past	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 go	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 made	obl
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 other	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 other	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 nothing	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 nothing	cc
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 nothing	det:predet
20	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 nothing	det
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 nothing	cop
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 made	parataxis
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 shadows	cc
24	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 nothing	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 deceptions	cc
26	deceptions	deception	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 shadows	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	the troll	a whole crowd	one after the other obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset crowd=Product
2	go	present	women	a whole crowd not said here	past questions = question	tree rules
3	is a	past		nothing		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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