More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 27

But scarcely had she seen him when he began to change into a bird, and then he said: "Now you have seen me, you shall see me no more, unless you are willing to serve seven years and a day for me, so that I may become a man once more."

Who acts: girl, friend, you · What happens: have, see, begin, change, say, be · To what, where: friend, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, friend, you), 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	_	3 had	cc
2	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seen	nsubj
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seen	obj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 began	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 change	mark
11	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 bird	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bird	det
14	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 change	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 said	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 seen	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 seen	punct
22	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 seen	advmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 seen	nsubj
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 seen	aux
25	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 see	advcl
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 seen	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seen	punct
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 see	nsubj
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 see	aux
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 see	obj
32	no	no	ADV	_	33 more	advmod
33	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 see	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 willing	punct
35	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	38 willing	mark
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 willing	nsubj
37	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 willing	cop
38	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 see	parataxis
39	to	to	PART	_	40 serve	mark
40	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 willing	xcomp
41	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 years	nummod
42	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 serve	obj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 day	cc
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 day	det
45	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 years	conj
46	for	for	ADP	_	47 me	case
47	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 serve	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 become	punct
49	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	53 become	mark
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 so	fixed
51	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 become	nsubj
52	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 become	aux
53	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 see	conj
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 man	det
55	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 become	xcomp
56	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	57 more	advmod
57	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	53 become	advmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past				scarcely property	tree rules
2	see	participle	girl	friend			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	begin	past	friend				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	change	to-infinitive	friend not said here			into a bird result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into bird=Result
5	say speech: assert	past	friend		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	see in a quote	present · perfect	you	friend	now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
7	see in a quote	shall	you	friend			tree rules
8	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you			willing property	tree rules
9	serve in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		year	for friend	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for i=Recipient
10	become in a quote	may	friend	a man			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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