The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 79

But here, with the full tide of summer around him, he could hardly accept his own explanation, and felt that he must have been the plaything or sport of some magician.

Who acts: friend, summer, magician · What happens: accept, feel, be, tide, explain, sport · To what, where: own explanation, plaything

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, summer, magician), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 here	cc
2	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 accept	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tide	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 tide	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tide	det
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tide	amod
7	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 here	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 summer	case
9	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tide	nmod
10	around	around	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tide	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 him	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 accept	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 accept	aux
15	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	16 accept	advmod
16	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 explanation	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 explanation	amod
19	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 accept	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 felt	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 felt	cc
22	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 accept	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 plaything	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 plaything	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 plaything	aux
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 plaything	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 plaything	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 plaything	det
29	plaything	plaything	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 felt	advcl
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 sport	cc
31	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 plaything	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 magician	case
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 magician	det
34	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sport	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 accept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	accept	could	friend	friend's own explanation	here	hardly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent explanation=Theme
2	feel	past	friend not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is a	must · perfect	friend	the plaything or sport of some magician			tree rules
4	tide		summer				nom tide «event intransitive»: of=agent
5	explain		friend				nom explanation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
6	sport		some magician				nom sport «act intransitive»: of=agent

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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