The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 5

It was all about magic, and told you how you could change yourself into anything in the world you liked.

Who acts: shelf, magic, you · What happens: be, tell, change, like · To what, where: you, yourself, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shelf, magic, you), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 magic	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 magic	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 magic	advmod
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 magic	case
5	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 magic	acl:relcl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 change	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 change	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 change	aux
13	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	xcomp
14	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 change	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	16 anything	case
16	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 change	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 world	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 world	det
19	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 anything	nmod
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 liked	nsubj
21	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 anything	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 magic	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	shelf			about magic; all property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	magic not said here		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	change not said to happen	could	you	yourself		into anything result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient into anything=Result
4	like	past	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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