The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 43

And, so saying, she changed her shape into that of a lion, and throwing the queen across her back, she went down the ten thousand steps that led to her palace.

Who acts: Madam, thousand steps · What happens: say, change, throw, go down, lead · To what, where: shape, that, queen, back, thousand steps · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madam, thousand steps), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 saying	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saying	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 saying	advmod
4	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 changed	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 changed	nsubj
7	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saying	ccomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 shape	nmod:poss
9	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 changed	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 that	case
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 changed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 lion	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lion	det
14	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 that	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 went	cc
17	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 went	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 queen	det
19	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 throwing	obj
20	across	across	ADP	_	22 back	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 back	nmod:poss
22	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 throwing	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 throwing	punct
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 changed	conj
26	down	down	ADP	_	30 steps	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 steps	det
28	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 thousand	compound
29	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 steps	nummod
30	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 went	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 led	nsubj
32	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 steps	acl:relcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 palace	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 palace	nmod:poss
35	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 led	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	change	past	Madam	Madam's shape		into that result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent shape=Patient into that=Result
3	throw	gerund	Madam not said here	the queen	Madam's back		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme
4	go down	past	Madam	the thousand steps			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient step=Extent
5	lead	past	the thousand steps			to Madam's palace	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to palace=Patient

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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