The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 18

In an instant the handle began to change into a head, and the spout into a tail, while the four paws appeared at the sides.

Who acts: handle, four paws · What happens: begin, change, appear · To what, where: spout, instant, head, sides

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (handle, four paws), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 instant	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 instant	det
3	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 handle	det
5	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 change	mark
8	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 head	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 head	det
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 change	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 spout	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 spout	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 spout	det
15	spout	spout	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	obl
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 tail	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tail	det
18	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spout	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 appeared	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 appeared	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 paws	det
22	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 paws	nummod
23	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 appeared	nsubj
24	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 sides	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sides	det
27	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 appeared	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the handle	the spout into a tail	a instant		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	change	to-infinitive	the handle not said here			into a head result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into head=Result
3	appear	past	the four paws		the sides		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at side=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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