The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 25

As before, his hands were changed into paws, but when he tried to switch his tail he found to his disgust that it would not go any distance.

Who acts: bear, tail · What happens: change, try, switch, find, not go, disgust · To what, where: hands, paws, tail, distance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, tail), 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	As	as	ADP	_	2 before	case
2	before	before	ADV	_	7 changed	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 before	punct
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hands	nmod:poss
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 changed	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 changed	aux:pass
7	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 paws	case
9	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 changed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 found	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 found	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 tried	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tried	nsubj
14	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 found	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 switch	mark
16	switch	switch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tried	xcomp
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 tail	nmod:poss
18	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 switch	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 found	nsubj
20	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 changed	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 disgust	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 disgust	nmod:poss
23	disgust	disgust	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 found	obl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 go	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 go	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 go	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 go	advmod
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 found	ccomp
29	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	30 distance	det
30	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	change	past · passive		bear's hands	into paws result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into paw=Result
2	try	past	bear			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	switch not said to happen	to-infinitive	bear not said here	bear's tail		vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
4	find	past	bear		to bear's disgust	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not go	would	tail	any distance		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	disgust		bear			nom disgust «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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