The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 78
He did so, and it instantly changed into a golden apple, which he put in his pocket.
Who acts: dragon, bade, golden apple · What happens: do, change, put · To what, where: golden 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 (dragon, bade, golden apple), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 changed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 changed | cc |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 changed | nsubj |
| 7 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 8 changed | advmod |
| 8 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 apple | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 apple | det |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 apple | amod |
| 12 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 changed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 put | nsubj:outer |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 put | nsubj |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 apple | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 pocket | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 19 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl | ||
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | dragon | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | change | past | bade | into a golden apple result; instantly property | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into apple=Result | ||||
| 3 | put | past | a golden apple | dragon's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent 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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