The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 110

First the handle of the kettle gradually changed its shape and became a head, and the spout grew into a tail, while out of the body sprang four paws, and in a few minutes the man found himself watching, not a kettle, but a tanuki!

Who acts: handle, spout, man · What happens: change, become, grow, spring, find, watch · To what, where: shape, head, tail, four paws, body, man

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (handle, spout, man), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 changed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 handle	det
3	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 changed	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 kettle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kettle	det
6	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 handle	nmod
7	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	8 changed	advmod
8	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shape	nmod:poss
10	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 changed	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 became	cc
12	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 changed	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 head	det
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 became	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 grew	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grew	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 spout	det
18	spout	spout	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grew	nsubj
19	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 changed	conj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 tail	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 tail	det
22	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grew	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sprang	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 sprang	mark
25	out	out	ADP	_	28 body	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 body	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 body	det
28	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sprang	obl
29	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 grew	conj
30	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 paws	nummod
31	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sprang	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 found	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 found	cc
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 minutes	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 minutes	det
36	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 minutes	amod
37	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 found	obl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 man	det
39	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 found	nsubj
40	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 changed	conj
41	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 found	obj
42	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 found	xcomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 kettle	punct
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 kettle	advmod
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 kettle	det
46	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 watching	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 tanuki	punct
48	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 tanuki	cc
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 tanuki	det
50	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 changed	obl
51	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	the handle of the kettle	Kettle's shape			a tanuki obl; first, gradually property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient
2	become	past	the handle of the kettle not said here	a head				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	grow	past	the spout				into a tail result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tail=Result
4	spring	past	the spout not said here	four paws	the body			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location paw=Theme
5	find	past	the man	man		minute		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme
6	watch	gerund	man not said here	a kettle				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

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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