The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 100
Then Paul changed the castle into an apple, and put it in his pocket.
Who acts: Paul · What happens: change, put · To what, where: castle, apple, pocket
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paul), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 changed | advmod |
| 2 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | nsubj |
| 3 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 castle | det |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 apple | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 apple | det |
| 8 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 put | cc |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 changed | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 put | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 pocket | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 15 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl | ||
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | Paul | the castle | then | into a apple result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent castle=Patient into apple=Result | ||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Paul not said here | castle | Paul's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pocket=Destination |
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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