The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 105
But by this time it had lost all likeness to a man, and was changed into a piece of wood.
What happens: lose, change · To what, where: pack, piece
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 lost | cc |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lost | aux |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 likeness | det |
| 9 | likeness | likeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 changed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 changed | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 changed | aux:pass |
| 16 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 lost | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 piece | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 piece | det |
| 19 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 changed | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 piece | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · perfect · passive | pack | time | to a man | tree rules | |||
| 2 | change | past · passive | into a piece of wood result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: into piece=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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