More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 82

Then they turned him into a swan, but all was in vain, till at last he was turned into a red-hot glaive, and this she cast into a well of water and then he turned back into a mother-naked man.

Who acts: arms, all, this, adder · What happens: turn, be, cast, turn back · To what, where: adder, swan, hot glaive, well

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arms, all, this, adder), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 turned	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 swan	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 swan	det
7	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 vain	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 vain	cc
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 vain	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 vain	cop
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 vain	case
13	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turned	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 last	punct
15	till	till	ADP	_	17 last	case
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 vain	appos
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 turned	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 turned	aux:pass
20	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 last	acl:relcl
21	into	into	ADP	_	26 glaive	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 glaive	det
23	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hot	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 red	punct
25	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 glaive	amod
26	glaive	glaive	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 turned	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cast	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cast	cc
29	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 cast	nsubj
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 cast	nsubj
31	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 well	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 well	det
34	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cast	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 water	case
36	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 well	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 turned	cc
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 turned	advmod
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 turned	nsubj
40	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
41	back	back	ADV	_	40 turned	advmod
42	into	into	ADP	_	47 man	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 man	det
44	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 naked	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 mother	punct
46	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 man	amod
47	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 turned	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	arms = arm	adder	a swan	then		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme into swan=Trajectory
2	is	past	all				vain property	tree rules
3	turn	past · passive		adder	a hot glaive			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into glaive=Trajectory
4	cast	past	this		a well of water			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into well=Product
5	turn back	past	adder			then	into a naked man	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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: «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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