The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 84
Then Paul changed the castle into an apple, which he put into his pocket, and set out with the two girls in search of the third castle.
Who acts: Paul, apple · What happens: change, put, set out, search · To what, where: castle, apple, pocket, third castle
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, 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 | 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 | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 put | nsubj:outer |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 put | nsubj |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 apple | acl:relcl |
| 13 | into | into | 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 | 12 put | obl | ||
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 set | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 set | cc |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 changed | advcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 set | compound:prt |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 girls | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 girls | det |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 girls | nummod |
| 23 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 set | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 search | case |
| 25 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 girls | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 castle | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 castle | det |
| 28 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 29 castle | amod |
| 29 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 search | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | 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 | past | a apple | Paul's pocket | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | set out | infinitive | Paul not said here | with the two girls in search of the third castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | search | the third castle | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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