The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 90

“Change yourself into a mouse,” said the bones; and so he did, and the ogre grew tired of waiting, and told the woman she must invent some other plan.

Who acts: bones, Motikatika, ogre · What happens: change, say, do, grow, wait, tell · To what, where: yourself, woman, other plan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bones, Motikatika, ogre), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Change	punct
2	Change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 Change	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 mouse	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Change	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Change	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Change	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bones	det
11	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 did	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 did	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 did	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 did	nsubj
16	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 grew	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 grew	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ogre	det
20	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grew	nsubj
21	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 did	conj
22	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 grew	xcomp
23	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 waiting	mark
24	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 tired	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 told	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 told	cc
27	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 woman	det
29	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 told	iobj
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 invent	nsubj
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 invent	aux
32	invent	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 told	ccomp
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 plan	det
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 plan	amod
35	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 invent	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	change in a quote	infinitive		yourself		into a mouse result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient into mouse=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	the bones				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	past	Motikatika				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	grow	past	the ogre			tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wait	gerund	the ogre not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	past	the bones not said here		the woman		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient clause=Topic
7	invent	must	Ogre	some other plan			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=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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