The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 89

Amongst the very last was the troll’s real daughter, who pinched the fool as she went past him to make him aware of her presence.

Who acts: last real daughter, daughter · What happens: be, pinch, go, make · To what, where: last real daughter, fool, troll

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 (last real daughter, daughter), 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	Amongst	amongst	ADP	_	4 last	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 last	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 last	advmod
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 daughter	amod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 daughter	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 troll	det
7	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 daughter	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 troll	case
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 daughter	amod
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pinched	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pinched	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 pinched	nsubj
13	pinched	pinch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fool	det
15	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pinched	obj
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 went	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pinched	advcl
19	past	past	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 make	mark
22	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 went	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 make	obj
24	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 make	xcomp
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 presence	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 presence	nmod:poss
27	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 aware	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 pinched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the troll's last real daughter		tree rules
2	pinch	past	the troll's last real daughter	the fool		vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Theme
3	go	past	daughter		past troll	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme past he=Initial_Location
4	make	to-infinitive	daughter not said here	troll	aware property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=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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