The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 7

So he wished himself a boy again, and in the twinkling of an eye his tail disappeared and his head shrank, and the long thick mane became short and curly.

Who acts: lion, tail, head, long thick mane · What happens: wish, disappear, shrink, become · To what, where: lion, twinkling

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 (lion, tail, head, long thick mane), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 wished	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wished	nsubj
3	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 wished	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wished	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	3 wished	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 disappeared	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 disappeared	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 twinkling	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 twinkling	det
12	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 disappeared	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 eye	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 eye	det
15	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 twinkling	nmod
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tail	nmod:poss
17	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 disappeared	nsubj
18	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wished	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shrank	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shrank	nsubj
22	shrank	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 disappeared	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 became	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 became	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 mane	det
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 mane	amod
27	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 mane	amod
28	mane	mane	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 became	nsubj
29	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wished	conj
30	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 became	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 curly	cc
32	curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 short	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past	lion	lion		again		tree rules
2	disappear	past	lion's tail		the twinkling of a eye			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shrink	past	lion's head					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	become	past	the long thick mane				short property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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