The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 27
Meanwhile the fortunes of the family had changed.
Who acts: fortunes · What happens: change
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (fortunes), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 8 changed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fortunes | det |
| 3 | fortunes | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 changed | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 family | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 family | det |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fortunes | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 changed | aux |
| 8 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past · perfect | the fortunes of the family | meanwhile property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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