More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 90

The world is turned topsy-turvy since then, like as if you'd turn it over with a spade!)

Who acts: you · What happens: turn, turn over · To what, where: world

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 world	det
2	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	aux:pass
4	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	topsy	topsy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turvy	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 topsy	punct
7	turvy	turvy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	xcomp
8	since	since	ADP	_	9 then	case
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 turned	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 turn	punct
11	like	like	SCONJ	_	16 turn	mark
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 turn	mark
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 turn	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 turn	nsubj
15	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 turn	aux
16	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 turned	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 turn	obj
18	over	over	ADP	_	16 turn	compound:prt
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 spade	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 spade	det
21	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turn	obl
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present · passive		the world					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	turn over a condition, not said to happen	would	you	world				with a spade	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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