The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 44

But when he reached the gates he saw that it was really a great town, so he wished himself back in his own shape and entered the city.

Who acts: boy, heap · What happens: reach, see, be, wish back, enter · To what, where: gates, great town, boy, own shape, city

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 (boy, heap), 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	_	8 saw	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	4 reached	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gates	det
6	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reached	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 town	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 town	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 town	cop
12	really	really	ADV	_	15 town	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 town	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 town	amod
15	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wished	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 wished	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wished	nsubj
19	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	conj
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 wished	obj
21	back	back	ADV	_	19 wished	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 shape	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 shape	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 shape	amod
25	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wished	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 entered	cc
27	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 wished	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 city	det
29	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 entered	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	reach	past	boy	the gates		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gate=Theme
2	see	past	boy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	heap	a great town		tree rules
4	wish back	past	boy	boy	boy's own shape	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme
5	enter	past	boy not said here	the city		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Destination

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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