The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 95
“Change yourself into a bird and snap off the beans,” said the bones.
Who acts: bones · What happens: change, snap, say · To what, where: yourself · 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), 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 | 14 said | ccomp |
| 3 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 Change | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 bird | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Change | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 snap | cc |
| 8 | snap | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Change | conj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 beans | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beans | det |
| 11 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 snap | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 snap | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Change | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bones | det |
| 16 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change in a quote | infinitive | yourself | into a bird result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient into bird=Result | ||||
| 2 | snap in a quote | present | off the beans | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient off bean=Co-Patient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the bones | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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