The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 31
Then the hare changed into a fish, and the fish into a bird, and the bird into a slimy wriggling snake.
Who acts: hare · What happens: change
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare), 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 | 4 changed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hare | det |
| 3 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | nsubj |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 fish | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fish | det |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fish | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fish | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fish | det |
| 11 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | parataxis |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 bird | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bird | det |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fish | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bird | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bird | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bird | det |
| 18 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fish | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 snake | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 snake | det |
| 21 | slimy | slimy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 snake | amod |
| 22 | wriggling | wriggling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 snake | compound |
| 23 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | participle | the hare | then | into a fish result; into a slimy wriggling snake | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into fish=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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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