More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 23

It is clear, therefore, that Catskin was originally transformed into an animal by the spirit of her mother, also transformed into an animal.

Who acts: spirit · What happens: be, transform · To what, where: Catskin, mother

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXIII. Catskin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirit), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 clear	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 clear	cop
3	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 therefore	punct
5	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 clear	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 transformed	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 transformed	mark
8	Catskin	Catskin	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 transformed	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 transformed	aux:pass
10	originally	originally	ADV	_	11 transformed	advmod
11	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 clear	conj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 animal	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 animal	det
14	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 transformed	obl
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 spirit	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 spirit	det
17	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 transformed	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 mother	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mother	nmod:poss
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spirit	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 transformed	punct
22	also	also	ADV	_	23 transformed	advmod
23	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 mother	acl
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 animal	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 animal	det
26	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 transformed	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 clear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			clear, therefore property	tree rules
2	transform	past · passive	the spirit of Catskin's mother	Catskin	into a animal result; originally property	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Patient into animal=Result
3	transform	participle		Catskin's mother not said here	into a animal result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into animal=Result

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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