The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 85

The chief answered that he would not kill them, but only cast a spell over them, by which their heads and bodies should remain as they were, but their arms and legs should change into those of a bear, so that they would go on all fours for the rest of their lives.

Who acts: chief, heads, servants, arms · What happens: answer, not kill, cast, remain, be, change · To what, where: servants, spell, those, fours · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, heads, servants, arms), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chief	det
2	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 kill	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kill	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 kill	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 kill	advmod
8	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	ccomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kill	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cast	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 cast	cc
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 cast	advmod
13	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 spell	det
15	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cast	obj
16	over	over	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cast	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 remain	punct
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 remain	obl
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 heads	nmod:poss
22	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 remain	nsubj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bodies	cc
24	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 heads	conj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 remain	aux
26	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 cast	conj
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 were	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 were	nsubj
29	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 remain	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 change	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 change	cc
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 arms	nmod:poss
33	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 change	nsubj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 legs	cc
35	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 arms	conj
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 change	aux
37	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	parataxis
38	into	into	ADP	_	39 those	case
39	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	37 change	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 bear	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 bear	det
42	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 those	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 go	punct
44	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	48 go	mark
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 so	fixed
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 go	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 go	aux
48	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 change	conj
49	on	on	ADP	_	51 fours	case
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	51 fours	det
51	fours	four	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 go	obl
52	for	for	ADP	_	54 rest	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 rest	det
54	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 go	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 lives	case
56	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 lives	nmod:poss
57	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 rest	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the chief				tree rules
2	not kill	would	chief	servants = servant			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	cast	infinitive	the chief not said here	a spell		over servants = servant	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spell=Theme over they=Destination
4	remain	should	servants's heads and bodies				vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by which=Location
5	be	past	servants = servant				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	change	should	servants's arms and legs			into those result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into that=Result
7	go	would	servants = servant		all fours	for the rest of servants's lives	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent on four=Location for rest=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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