The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 30
And then she changed herself into a man, and picking up the stiff body of the tanuki, set off towards the village.
Who acts: Ungarische · What happens: change, pick up, set off · To what, where: Ungarische, stiff body, village
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ungarische), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 changed | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 changed | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 changed | nsubj |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 changed | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 picking | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 picking | cc |
| 11 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 changed | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 picking | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 body | det |
| 14 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 body | amod |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 picking | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 tanuki | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tanuki | det |
| 18 | tanuki | tanuki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 body | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 set | punct |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 picking | conj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 set | compound:prt |
| 22 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 24 village | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 village | det |
| 24 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | Ungarische | Ungarische | then | into a man result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into man=Result | ||
| 2 | pick up | gerund | Ungarische not said here | the stiff body of the tanuki | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Topic | ||||
| 3 | set off | participle | Ungarische not said here | the village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards village=Initial_Location |
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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