Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 131
I'll change thee into a stream and myself into a fish--a perch."
Who acts: I · What happens: change · To what, where: thee, stream
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 change | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 change | aux |
| 3 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 change | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 stream | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stream | det |
| 7 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 change | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 myself | cc |
| 9 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 stream | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 fish | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fish | det |
| 12 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 change | obl |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 perch | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 perch | det |
| 15 | perch | perch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fish | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 change | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 change | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | future | I | thee | into a stream result; into a fish and a perch | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent thou=Patient into stream=Result |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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