The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 101
And he plucked a leaf from a tree close by, and from a rough digger he was changed into a stately bald-headed king.
Who acts: man · What happens: pluck, change · To what, where: leaf, tree, man, rough digger
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 plucked | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 plucked | nsubj |
| 3 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 leaf | det |
| 5 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plucked | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plucked | obl |
| 9 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tree | amod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 close | fixed |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 changed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 changed | cc |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 digger | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 digger | det |
| 15 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 digger | amod |
| 16 | digger | digger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 changed | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 changed | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 changed | aux:pass |
| 19 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 plucked | conj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 king | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 22 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 king | amod |
| 23 | bald | bald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 headed | amod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 bald | punct |
| 25 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 king | amod |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 changed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 plucked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck | past | man | a leaf | a tree | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme from tree=Source | |||
| 2 | change | past · passive | man | a rough digger | into a stately headed king result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.material PP.result»: subject=Patient from digger=Initial_State into king=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: «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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