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description: 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. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, with its depende
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 70

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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.

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**Who acts:** troll, youth · **What happens:** make, know, do, not be · **To what, where:** fact, much, all

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg5615:27:70
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	just	just	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obj	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	obl	_	_
40	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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