The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 85

Directly he saw what had happened he changed himself into a hawk and flew after the dove.

Who acts: man · What happens: see, happen, change, fly · To what, where: man · 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 (man), 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	Directly	directly	ADV	_	3 saw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 happened	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happened	aux
6	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 saw	ccomp
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 changed	nsubj
8	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 changed	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 hawk	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hawk	det
12	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 changed	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 flew	cc
14	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
15	after	after	ADP	_	17 dove	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dove	det
17	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flew	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	man			directly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	happen	past · perfect					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	change	past	man	man		into a hawk result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into hawk=Result
4	fly	past	man not said here		after the dove		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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