The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 83

Though when she sprang from the carriage she was aware that some unkind fate had changed her into an animal, yet, till she saw herself in a stream, she had no idea what it was.

Who acts: thing, unkind fate, fate · What happens: spring, be, change, see, have · To what, where: carriage, thing, stream, idea

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, unkind fate, fate), 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	Though	though	ADV	_	4 sprang	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 sprang	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sprang	nsubj
4	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 carriage	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 carriage	det
7	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sprang	obl
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 aware	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 aware	cop
10	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sprang	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 changed	mark
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 fate	det
13	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fate	amod
14	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 changed	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 changed	aux
16	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 aware	ccomp
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 changed	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 animal	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 animal	det
20	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 changed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
22	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	33 had	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 yet	punct
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 saw	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 saw	nsubj
26	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 had	advcl
27	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 saw	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 stream	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 stream	det
30	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 saw	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saw	punct
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sprang	conj
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 idea	det
35	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obj
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 had	obj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 what	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 what	cop
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spring	past	thing		the carriage	though property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from carriage=Trajectory
2	is	past	thing			aware property	tree rules
3	change	past · perfect	some unkind fate	thing		into a animal result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient into animal=Result
4	see	past	thing	thing	a stream		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herself=Stimulus
5	have	past	thing	no idea			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
6	is a	past	fate				tree rules

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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